Less Overtime For West Coast Sawmills
Press As&ociation)
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GKEi iMULTH, Al Hrch .j.L. As from tomorrow tlie majonty oi' West Goast sawmiiis will reduee working hours as a result of a eut oi per cent. in the subsidy which llie Government pays for work done in sawmiiis cutting indigonous timber over and above the basic 40-hour week. Most of the mills will now work a 44-hour week. A 48-hour week, although not general, had been widelv observed in tlic West Coast mills. After ihe war t Ini Government agreed to eontinue to pa;, a substantial subsidy on overtime wages for the extra eight hours' work. The Government had now advised the sawmillers that it . will pay a wages subsidy for onlv four hours' overtime.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1949, Page 2
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125Less Overtime For West Coast Sawmills Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1949, Page 2
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