INDUSTRIES FAIR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26849, 13 August 1948, Page 4

INDUSTRIES FAIR

SUSPENSION OF AWARDS ORDER-IN-COUNCIL MADE Special to the Daily Times WELLINGTON,. Aug. 12. To-night’s Gazette contains an Order-in-Council suspending. the operations of certain statutes in connection with the Centennial Industries Fair to be conducted at Dunedin from September 15 to September 25 by the Otagp-Southland Manufacturers’ Association. The order authorises the holding of the exhibition which it declares to oe an exhibition within the meaning of the Exhibitions Act and suspends/ subject to certain conditions, all the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, the Factories Act and the Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation Act, and all awards and agreements in force under the last-named in so far as such provisions relate to the hours of starting, or finishing Work, or the issue of permits for overtime and extended hours, or to holidays or half-holidays, or to the closing of shops to any person so far as such relate to the exhibition exhibitors or employees. The conditions to which the suspension is subject include that eight hours Shall constitute a day’s work to be worked consecutively, provided that no employee shall work more than four hours without at least 45 minutes’ meal break; that any person working more than eight hours in a day or before 8 a.m. or after 10.30 p.m., whether such employment is in or about the exhibition or otherwise, shall be paid time and a-half for the first two hours’ excess and double the ordinary rate thereafter, and that where any person works wholly in or about the exhibition or otherwise in a day which would be a holiday under the terms of the particular award governing him or her. all work on such a aay shall be at double time. No one of either sex is to be employed before 8 a.m. or after 10.30 p.m. Any union or association official 13 to have the right to interview employees at the exhibition at such time as may be agreed upon between the official and the employer and for this purpose any such official is to be entitled to have access at any time to the register of passes issued by the association. .