Preparing for Extra Cheese Production

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 187, 9 August 1940, Page 7

Preparing for Extra Cheese Production

EXTRA HOURS IN FACTORIES Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 8. The programme which is being embarked upon by the dairy industry to increase the production of cheese by 15,000 tons during the coming production season was discussed at a meeting of the Industrial Emergency Council seld at Parliament Buildings this week. The Minister of Labour said to-night that to achieve this object it was considered necessary that factories should be enabled to work to the fullest limits. Consultations had therefore taken place with both the employers’ and workers’ organisations with 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 be worked during the whole season in 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 tfa'turduy 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 bo paid.

41 The arrangement is considered highly satisfactory both from the workers’ standpoint and from the viewpoint of increased production, and is one among many efforts being put forward in the Dominion to assist the Motherland in her war effort,” said Mr. Webb.