“CLOSED DURING WEEK-END”
SUGGESTION MADE BY MISS H. HUNT OBSERVANCE OF AWARD BY HOSPITAL “I think we had better put a notice on the doors of all our institutions, including the maternity home: ‘Closed on Friday night and open again on Monday’,” declared Miss Helen Hunt at the meeting of the Southland Hospital Board yesterday, when a letter was received from the Invercargill Clerks and Office Assistants’ Union stating that the board was not abiding by the award providing for a five-day week of 37J hours in the employment of its office staff at Kew. The board was requested to make the adjustment as soon as possible and to pay any overtime due as a consequence. The secretary (Mr T. Pryde) said he had been informed that a 38-hour week was worked, including three hours on Saturday morning. The chairman (Mr T. Golden): It appears that the union secretary doesn’t understand that we have to keep a hospital going on Saturday and Sunday as well as on every other day of the week. I don’t think the award was meant to be carried out as rigidly as that. I think in this case if we had an interview with the Labour Department we could get a permit. The secretary remarked that the board was bound by the award.
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Southland Times, Issue 23769, 17 March 1939, Page 6
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