SIX-DAY WEEK A POINT FOE THE CROWN JAW OFFICERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1914, Page 8

SIX-DAY WEEK A POINT FOE THE CROWN JAW OFFICERS

_ Sinoe the commencement of tho operation of tho Bix-days-a-weok regulation in hotels tho whole holiday b*d to be given once in every eeven dayg or onoe in each week. When, some yews ftgo, tfao halfholiday was granted by legislation th» samo queetion was aekpd. Under the old regulation of the half-holiday weekly it» h*s been acoopted by all of the parties that if the h«lf-d«y was given qnco in. eftcb week the Act had boon complied with. IP tho same *uliotf vroro to obtain under the new provision for a six-day weok it would 1 happen that a period of Ihirteon days niight elapse between tho whole day holi- 1 day in ono week and tlw holiday of thet. next, week. In consequence of the doubt ontortainod, the Labour Department was a^ked and agreed to obtain the Crown Law Officers' opinion on the matter. The local union hae boon advißOtt that tho Crown Law authorities hold that unless the holiday is given onoo in every seven daye tho provisionß of the award ara" not complied with, which, in effect, means that whatever day of the woek the worker is engaged on, he can only bo asked to work Bix days, and must on the eovonth, day be given a holiday.