PROHIBITIVE PAY
SATURDAY MORNING WORK GROCERY DELIVERIES COSTLY SCHOOLBOY LABOUR The practice of employing schoolboys to deliver groceries on Saturday mornings is stated by grocers as likely to be discontinued as a result of provisions of the recent award, which fixed remuneration for casual labour of this character that is considered prohibitive. Deliveries of groceries are always very heavy on Saturday mornings and extra labour has been deemed a necessity in many instances. However, under the award, a grocer who employs a schoolboy for any part of Saturday morning is to pay a minimum wage of 12s.
The award specifies casual rates, with no differentiation between adult and junior labour, of 3s a hour, but payment must not. be made for less than four hours. Saturday hours are specified between 8.15 a.m. and 12 noon, a period of 3J hou"rs, but the award further provides ,that on the day of the half holiday work shall not be for mora than 3J hours. So even should an umployer engage a- schoolboy for Saturday morning and work him for the full period permitted he must pay him for four hours for 3} hours' actual Worlcj
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23124, 24 August 1938, Page 12
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193PROHIBITIVE PAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23124, 24 August 1938, Page 12
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