PRIVATE HOSPITALS
FIVE-DAY WEEK FOR STAFFS PROPOSAL OF UNION (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 17. A demand for a five-day week for domestics and nursing aids in hospitals has been served by the Hotel Workers’ Union on all hospitals in Christchurch. A new award, for which proceedings will begin in the Conciliation Council within a few days, is the first which has sought to include in its scope private hospitals in the city. Private hospitals have received the news with alarm and tomorrow morning a deputation from them will wait on the Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer, who is in Christchurch. “ Babies do not work to a 40-hour week schedule. The only effect of this new award will be that we will have to close down,” said Miss E. G. Trotter, matron of Lyndhurst Private Obstetric Hospital. The proposal, she said, was fantastic, in view of the present staffing difficulties. St. George’s Hospital has also been cited as a party to the award. The matron said to-day that under the present staffing conditions the new provisions asked for would be impossible. “ Evidently people should not be sick over week-ends,” she said
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26286, 18 October 1946, Page 4
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