CHEESE FACTORIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 215, 9 August 1940, Page 10

CHEESE FACTORIES.

EXTENSION OF HOURS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. Aug. 3. The programme which is being embarked upon by the dairy industry to increase the production of cheese by 15,000 tons during tho coming production season was discussed at a meeting of the Industrial Emergency Council at Parliament Buildings this week. The Minister of Labour (Hon. P. C. Webb) said to-night that to achieve this object it was considered necessary that factories should bo enabled to work to the fullest limits. Consultations had, therefore, taken place with both tho employers’ and workers’ organislyions witlj a view to satisfactory working arrangements being made. The council unanimously recommended that the provisions of the Dairy Factories’ Employees’ Award about hours be suspended so as to enable a 52-hour week to bo worked during the whole season ir. any cheese factory where cheese was being manufactured in the factory on every day of the week. In lieu of overtime payment a special scale of wages was fixed for workers who were working 52 hours. For work in excess of four hours on Saturday and for time worked on Sunday or holiday, or in excess of 52 hours a week, the special rates prescribed by the award "were to be paid “The arrangement is considered highly satisfactory both from the workers’ standpoint and from the viewpoint of increased production, and is . one among the many efforts being put forward in the Dominion to assist the Motherland in her war effort,” said Air Webb.