SHOP LEGISLATION.
SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS. CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. This evening the Shop Assistants' l'nion met local members of Parliament to discuss amendments desired in the Shops and Offices Acf. The movement, which is a Dominion one, aims at a universal half-holiday, the abolition of tho late night, a 40i-hours week, time worked before 8 a.m. and after ii.oU p.m. to be paid for at overtime rates, no work after noon on Saturdays, the weekly hall-holiday to bo ob-erved, notwithstanding that another holiday has taken place in the same week, the repeal of the provisions that an employee receiving over 77/0 is not entitled to overtime, and declaring Faster Saturday a public holiday. The union also desires to insert a clause in the Act preventing the employment of child assistants on Saturday nights and Sundays.
The discussion was taken in committee, and it was subsequently announced that the members of Parliament present favoured most of the amendments.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 191, 13 August 1919, Page 9
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