OVERTIME BAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27386, 11 May 1950, Page 8

OVERTIME BAN

Hillside Workshops LITTLE INCONVENIENCE Some Production Delays The ban on overtime at the Hillside Workshops decided upon by a mass meeting of employees on Wednesday will not have a great deal of effect upon the production of new equipment or the servicing and general maintenance of rolling stock. The mass meeting decided to work overtime only for plant maintenance, breakdowns and in cases where public safety could be affected, but the Daily Times was told that in only a few cases would the ban cause other than minor inconvenience. Some delays to the completion of works might result, but these would be slight and of minor importance. The amount of overtime worked at Hillside in the past few years has been small in comparison with the war years. The greater part of the overtime done recently, the Daily Times was told, was in eliminating bottlenecks to enable rolling stock to be put back into work more speedily. Most of the work done at Hillside falls broadly into two categories—repairs and maintenance, and new construction. Only at times when, for instance, work on a boiler has to be speeded up to keep pace with other repairs to an engine so as to put it back into commission quickly, is overtime work required under normal circumstances.