FORTY-HOUR WEEK
POSTAL EMPLOYEES z EXPLANATION BY MINISTER [by telegraph— special reporter] WELLINGTON, Friday An announcement that the 40-hour ■wepk was now in operation in the Post and Telegraph servico was made by the Postmaster-General, the Hon. i. Jones, when the estimates of the department were under discussion in the House of Representatives to-day. "It will be some time before the whole of the staff will be working a 40-hour week," said the Minister, "because we are having some difficulty in ■ training the additional men required. ' Those who are working more than 40 hours a week will be paid overtime, but we are going ahead as quickly as possible with the training of the additional men as wo want to cut out overtime work.".
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22516, 5 September 1936, Page 16
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