Late Shopping Nights
Sir, —It is surprising that shop assistants generally are not eager and willing to work two late nights in the approaching Christmas week. From a business point of view shopkeepers (and I am not one) have experienced a very lean return from their businesses during the last few months and their efforts to stimulate trade through conducting sales has apparently met with little additional business. When I visited most shops recently I saw the assistants mostly unemployed, standing around talking. If I were one of them I would at Christmas time be only too eager to offer to work an extra night to compensate for the time I had been paid when my employer could easily have
dispensed with my services. I may be a ba<?k number, or what present generations call a “square,” but I would elect to be this rather than a “skinner” from my employer.— Yours, etc., CONSIDER BOTH SIDES. November 18,-1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30603, 20 November 1964, Page 12
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