OVERTIME WORKED BY GROCERS
PROVISION IN ACT ATTACKED (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, March 5. An attack on the provision in the Shops and Offices Amendment Act vesting in the Labour Department the power to dictate to grocers when they should work overtime was made by counsel appearing in the Magistrate’s Court for Wardells, Ltd., who pleaded guilty to a charge of extending the working hours without a permit. It was stated that one clause of the Act said grocery firms could observe overtime for stocktaking and other special work and the Magistrate postponed any penalty to allow the Master Grocers’
Association to refer this clause to the Arbitration Court for an interpretaAnderson ,for Wardells stated this was the first such prosecution in the Dominion. Prior to the amendment in July the employers could decree overtime, but now this could not be worked, without a written permit. The present breach occurred during the Christmas rush. Great concern was expressed by grocers everywhere over the position and it was a Gilber-. tian situation.
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Southland Times, Issue 23141, 6 March 1937, Page 12
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