FIVE-DAY WEEK
... STAFFS OF.PRIVATE , HOSPITALSMANAGEMENTS’ CONCERN (T'.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 17. A demand for, a five-day. week for the - , domestics and nursing aids in hospitals has’ been served by the Bote! Workers’ Union on all of the hospitals in Christchurch. A new award, for which proceedings will begin in the Conciliation 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 in the 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 the 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 present staffing difficulties. St. George’s Hospital has also been cited as a party to the award. The matron said to-day that, under present staffing conditions, the new provisions asked for would be impossible.' “Evidently people should not be sick over the week-ends,” she said.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1946, Page 10
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