ARBITRATION COURT.
JUDGAIENTS DELIVERED.
TIMBER AND WOOLLEN AIILLS.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON .July 3.
A judgment of the Arbitration Court fixing the hours of work in the sawmill, box factory, and timber-yard industries at 40 a week, exclusive of overtime, was delivered by Air Justice Page to-day. The judgment said it had not been established that it would be impracticable to carry on efficiently on a 40-hour week. .
The rates of pay would be adjusted so that the ordinary weekly rate would not be reduced by reason of the reduction in working hours. The question of fixing hours so that no part of the working period fell on Saturday would be dealt with in a subsequent memorandum.
A judgment fixing the hours at 40 was also given on the application of the workers under the Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland AVoollen Mills employees’ award. It was considered not impracticable to carry on efficiently the industry or work of any of the factories in question on a 40-hour week. An order was made that no part of the working week fall on a Saturday.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 4 July 1936, Page 11
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184ARBITRATION COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 4 July 1936, Page 11
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