AGREEMENT REACHED
PRINTING TRADE" AWARD
REDUCTION OF HOURS
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
..Complete agreement was reached today in the printing and, related trades dispute. Details of the proposed award will lie put in final form this evening and tomorrow.
Workers on a , 44-hour week will bo reduced to 4S hours, with a. five-day week in the case of .commercial printing offices and' a six-day week in the case of newspaper offices. Linotype workers on a 42-hour week will be reduced to 41. All the above to be called upon to work A 6 hours extra per annum at ordinary rates, and when this is exhausted a 42-hour and 41-hour week will be established and all hours above the reduced hours will be overtime.
The above reduced hours do not apply to towns of under 6COO population.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 13
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