PAINTERS AND DECORATORS
EMPLOYERS OPPOSE FORTY-HOUR WEEK [Pur United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Juaa 10. Conciliation proceedings took place to-day in the painters and decorators’ application for a Dominion award. The employers opposed the forty-hour week and the claim of 2s Gd an hour, and asked for an eight-hour day to be worked between 7.30 and 5 p.m. on week days, and between 7.30 a.m. and noon on Saturdays. The union asked that the hours be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and no work on Saturdays, The employers offered 2s an hour. The proceedings were adjourned to enable the parties to consider the respective claims in the light of the arguments submitted.
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Evening Star, Issue 22367, 17 June 1936, Page 18
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