MORE FORTY-HOUR WEEK DECISIONS

Northern Advocate, 11 July 1936, Page 2

MORE FORTY-HOUR WEEK DECISIONS

[Per Press Association. —CovyrightJ a- WELLINGTON, This Day.

■:r. In several further derisions, the Arbitration Court has granted applications made under Section 21 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act for a reduction of working hours to 40 a week. In each .Case the Court also considered applications from factory occupiers for an of the weekly hours to 44. In the cases of the Wanganui chemical, fertiliser and acid workers, the 0t - • ■ * 1 Canterbury manure, tallow, acid, soap .and candle workers, and the Otago Snd Southland manure, tallow, acid, Soap and candle makers, the only industry dealt with was that of chemical manure manufacturing, and the parties reached an agreement on all questions. They arranged that the working week (exclusive of overtime) be 40 hours and that men on shift work are to work eight hours daily (including crib time c-f 20 minutes).

Rates of Pay to be Adjusted,

5' The Court made an order accordingly. Rates of pay will be adjusted on September 1, no wages to be reduced because of the reduction in working hours. Work on Saturdays will be permitted. f In the cases of the Canterbury range Workers and the Otago and Southland range workers, the parties agreed to a 40-hour week and the elimination of Saturday work for all workers, except those engaged in the enamelling and sand blasting sections. The Court thought that the 40-hour week should

apply to workers in the enamelling and sand blasting sections, but that -employers should be entitled to work them on Saturdays, and that shift work should be allowed to continue as in the past. V! It made an order fixing at 10 the fjaaximum number of hours, exclusive oJ overtime, to be worked in any week by any worker bound by either sWavd.' ; ■

Some Saturday Work.

J| Except as to workers in the enamelling and sand blasting sections, no part of the working week shall fall oh the Saturday. In these two sections work may be done on any Sac--•V: ‘ ... . and shift work may be continued, as in the past. ■|sln the case of the Canterbury manure, tallow, acid, soap and candle workers and the Otago and Southland manure, acid, candle, soap and tallow makeMr the Court came to the con-

elusion that a 40-hour week should be observed, but that work should be permitted on Saturdays, and that, when a pan is being cast, workers rpay be required to work for five Hours without interval. All these or-. ders take effect on September 1. / ■. ' ! M