40-HOUR WEEK IN CANADA
Progress Towards Objective (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) o , OTTAWA. So far as the manufacturing industries are concerned. Canadian labour has made great progress toward the objective of a five-day, 40-hour working week. At the end of October, Mr Milton Gregg, the Minister of Labour, issued the results of this year’s survey of conditions in 6200 manufacturing establishments, covering more than 1,000,000 workers and including almost every plant employing more than 15 persons. This shows that 86 per cent, of Canadian factory workers are now on a five-day week. Furthermore, 62 per cent, of these workers are now on a 40-hour week, or less, as compared with 58 per cent, last year. Sixty-three per cent, of the manufacturing labour force enjoy three weeks’ holiday, as against 60 per cent, a year ago. The most common, but not a universal, requirement for the threeweek holiday is 15 years’ service. Those granted a full month’s holiday amounted to 10 per cent., the usual requirement being 25 years’ service. The survey applied to women employed as well as men.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28155, 19 December 1956, Page 7
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