APPLICATIONS FOR 40-HOUR WEEK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 June 1936, Page 13

APPLICATIONS FOR 40-HOUR WEEK

POURING IN TO ARBITRATION ' EMPLOYERS ASK FOR 44 HOURS (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Applications for the reduction of hours to 40 a week by workers’ unions and associations and for extension beyond 40 on the part of employers’ organisations and individual industries are pouring in for hearing by 'he Court of Arbitration at its speciasitting which will open in Wellington on Monday. It was stated yesterday that practically every industrial union of workers in New Zealand is applying to amend awards and industrial agreements by reducing the working hours to 40 a week and fixing the total week ly hours of work in factories at 40. A very large number of employers, individually or through their associations, will be applying for the extension of the hours to 44. In a number of instances, however, employers will not object to the immediate application of the 40 hours to their factories. It is considered likely that in all the court will be asked to consider more than 400 applications—employers’ and workers —though the situation will be simplified to some extent by the grouping of applications.