HOURS OF LORRY DRIVERS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25092, 25 January 1947, Page 8

HOURS OF LORRY DRIVERS

REDUCTION APPROVED IN BRITAIN (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23 The Court inquiring into the claim? of the road haulage workers'whose unofficial strike disrupted London’s food supplies has approved demands for a 44-hoqr week, instead of a 48-hour week. The new week is to begin qn March 1. and is to be regulated to five or five and a half days, with hours worked in excess of "a normal day” to t count not towards 44 hours but to be paid as overtime. - The Court, which sat after the Joint Industrial Council had failed to agree on January 19, recommended that men with 48 weeks’ service should have nine days’ holiday, the remainder to be on a scale descending to the previous figure of six days. Loading of Dutch Ship.— The' Federal council of the Waterside Workers’ Union is discussing the loading *of the Dutch ship Tjibesar in Sydney by Dutch troops, and will determine its course of action. The watersiders are satisfied that no Australian naval or military personnel are engaged in the actual- loading.—Sydney, January 24.