NO DOUBLE-BANKING
WORK ON SATURDAYS POSITION OF TRADESMEN Tradesmen who formerly'worked five and a half days a. week liut who have now been awarded a five-day week of forty' hours are warned by; the Minister of Labour' (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) that they must "not undertake work at their trade' on their own account oh Saturdays..,' ; , "Complaints by employers have been, made to me that tradesm«i.*.such a» plumbers, are doing this/V said. -the Minister today.. "By such actions they are taking unfair advantage ,of. their employers who have been compelled to restore the 'cuts' and pay for five days' work a wage equivalent to that or five.and a half days." . The Minister exDressed doubt as.to whether the complaints were justified, but indicated that steps would' be taken by the Government to prevent anything of the kind. He mentioned that Government servants had been included in the complaints, and added that they would be treated the same in regard to Saturday work as wer« the employees of private concerns.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 10
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169NO DOUBLE-BANKING Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 10
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