44-HOUR WEEK
APPLICATION REFUSED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, September 4.
An application by Booth, Mac Donald and Company, Limited, to work under a 44-hour week at ordinary rates of pay while-engaged on.important munition work has been. refused,. according to advice, received by the Auckland Manufacturers' Association from the Minister of Labour, Mr. Webb.
The refusal has been received with surprise, not only because of the nature of the operations upon which the company is engaged, but because the application followed an unsolicited, offer by the staff to work beyond the 40-hdur week for four.hours on Saturday at ordinary rates. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 9
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