PRIVATE HOSPITALS
FIVE-DAY WEEK DEiAND "FANTASTIC PROPOSAL" ; (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 17. , A demand for a five-day week for domestics and nursing aids in hospitals have been served by the Hotel Workers’ Union on all hospitals in Christchurch. A new, award, for which’ proceedings will begin in the Concilia*; tion Council within a few. "days, is the first which has sought to include in its scope private hospitals in the city. Private hospitals have received the news with alarm, and to-morrow morning' a deputation from , them will' wait on the Minister of. Health, Mr Nordmeyer, who is in Christchurch. “ Babies do not work to a 40-hour-week schedule. The only effect, of this new award will be that we will have to close down,”-said Miss.E. G. Trotter,; matron of Lyndhurst Private Obstetric Hospital. The proposal, she said, was fantastic, in view of the present staffing difficulties. St. George’s Hospital has also been cited as a party to the award. The matron said to-day that under the present staffing conditions the. new provisions asked for would be impos-; sible. “ Evidently people should not be sick over week-ends,” she said.
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Evening Star, Issue 25926, 18 October 1946, Page 6
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