PUBLIC SERVICE
LONGER HOURS
FOR SOME BUT NOT ALL •
[ The question is being asked among sections of the Public Service as'to why the three Service Departments should have to work much overtime daily and should also have to work every Saturday and on Sundays, while other Departments cease work daily at 4.30 p.m. and do not work on any Saturdays. A short statement on this subject has been made by the Public-Service Commissioner (Mr. Boyes). According '■ to this statement, the question of the hours to be worked depend oh the amount of work beine done and. the staff available to do it. Put in another way, the Public Service Commissioner explained that "hours in the Public Service are- now simply fixed according to the exigencies of the different Departments." Some Departments which, were: doing | war work, he said, were now working a six-day week, but no general policy had been defined. ■ ' r
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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152PUBLIC SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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