HOURS OF WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 200, 25 August 1939, Page 9

HOURS OF WORK.

AT CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

MORE ELASTICITY ALLOWED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

An amendment to the Centennial Exhibition Order, 1939, has been gazetted, modifying the original order.

The original order provided that the eight hours which constituted a day's work must be worked consecutively except for a meal interval of at least three-quarters of an hour. Some awards, however, provide that the hours of work may be arranged to suit the nature of the business, while exhibitors will no doubt desire to arrange daily hours so that they fit in with the busiest periods of public attendance.

The amendment to the order, therefore, while preserving the eight-hour and five-day or five and a half day week, allows the daily hours to be spread and permits Saturday, which will be the busiest day of the week, to be regarded as an ordinary working day, in which case a day or half a day off will require to be given on some other day of the week.

The original order also provided for extra payment for work done before 8 a.m. or after 10.30 p.m. The order has, however, been amended to preserve the elasticity of the existing awards in respect of hours of employment of nightwatchmen, cleaners, etc. The order provides for double time rates for work done on whole holidays, but this has been amended to make it clear that such extra payment.is not required to be made for work done on Saturday where a five-day week (Monday to Friday) is in operation unless a special whole holiday prescribed by the Act, award or agreement covering the workers concerned falls on such a day.