HOSPITAL WORKERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23085, 9 July 1938, Page 20

HOSPITAL WORKERS

AWARD PROVISIONS SUNDAY OVERTIME QUESTION [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDKNT] HAMILTON. Friday Objection to the conditions under which it is proposed that firemen employed by the board should be included in a new award, was raised at a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board yesterday. The chairman, Mr. F. Findlav, said the award provided for heavy increases in pay for Saturday and Sunday work and, while the board was willing to observe the 40-hour week and the normal wages scale, lie considered it should be exempted from paying additional wages as was required to bo Eaid by factories. The board, be added, ad to maintain a continuous service and was not engaged in commercial pursuits. It was decided to apply for exemption from the overtime provisions of the proposed award. The board also decided that it did not wish to enter into an agreement with the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Industrial Union of Workers, as it desired that the dispute should go before the Court of Arbitration should the board bo cited as a party to any award covering the employees concerned.

Tn his annual report, the chairman advised that the board had been made a party to the following awards: — Carpenters and joiners, painters, engine drivers, chemists, and local authorities officers and clerks.