OFFICE HOURS
LEGAL FIRMS EXEMPTED BUT WAGE PROVISIONS APPLY [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, May 28. Although the Shops and Offices Bill, as amended pn the motion of the Minister of Labour, contains a relaxation in the limitations of hours affecting solicitors’ offices, the Minister told the House on the third reading that he would not make any change to relieve this class of employer from the minimum wage provisions. Being a reasonable man, he remarked, he had made the conccssqpn over the closing time of offices because lawyers might be seriously inconvenienced in getting opportunities to listen to their clients. Mr Mason _ (Attorney-General): You mean the client might be • inconvenienced not the lawyer. The Minister suggested that the lawyer might lose some bawbees. He really thought they might be exempted altogether until he made inquiries and found that rather smart girls were employed in solicitors’ offices for 10s a week, and their wages were not increasing as rapidly as they now would under the new Bill. There were also rather smart young men and women getting only 15s to £1 a week, and this satisfied him that no exemption from the minimum wage provisions should be given.
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Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 9
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