COAL MINERS' WAGES.
OVERTIME ON SUNDAYS.
[BY telegraph, special correspondent.] Wellington, Sunday. In the House of Representatives on Saturday, on the motion of the Prime Minister, the Coal Mines Amendment Act was amended to provide that every miner, whether employed underground or not, shall be paid overtime at the rate of time and a-half for all time worked on Sundays or holidays. This provision is to operate notwithstanding any existing award or agreement. At.present the overtime provision applies only to miners working underground. A new clause was also inserted authorising the State Coal Department to traffic in coal and firewood. When the House resumed Mr. Luke, while sympathising with the overtime provision, opined that a dangerous precedent ' was being established in undertaking functions that properly belonged to the Court. The amendments were approved and the Bill was passed.
In the Legislative Council the Bill was' "defeated on the second reading.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14824, 30 October 1911, Page 8
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