36-HOUR WEEK
ENTICEMENT OFFERED BY EMPLOYERS PRACTICE CONDEMNED (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, March 1. A practice has been adopted by one or two employers in the clothing industry of. offering workers a 36-hour week for 40-hour week pay in order to retain labour. This is condemned by the New Zealand Federation of Labour.
“This is one way of destroying stabilisation, and it may even cause disturbances in other industries;” declared Mr. K. Baxter, National Secretary of the New Zealand . Federation of Labour. Mr. Baxter is in Invercargill to launch a New Zealand-wide campaign for what he terms “the development of a common-sense view of stabilisation.” Mr. Baxter added it was the earnest hope of the federation that any application to the Economic Stabilisation ' Commission for an increased subsidy for additional costs, due to the working of a 36-hour week, would be promptly refused.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1946, Page 4
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