CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1315, 19 December 1911, Page 4

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR.

ASSISTANTS' HOURS. Numerous inquiries havo boon niade of the AVelliiißton Kiuployers , Associafiun (sfr. W. A. \\\ Circnlcil, secretary) by shopkeepers as to the, e.\:u;t provisions of Hie Shops and Offices Act, relative, to Chrittmns Kvo and New Year's Eve, or, us in the prcfciil. year, with respect ta (he hours of assistants on Ulo pneedilifr Niturday ni K hts, when Clui.stmas Hay and New Year's Day fall on a Monday. -Mr. Orenfc-ll makes the following remarks upon the .subject. Special provision is made in tlio Act for both the above occasions. Section sof tho Act reads as follows:— "Xorhinjr'in this Act thai] render 11. unlawful for .the occupier of any f Hip to .■inployl his till '■leven o'clnc-k at liicht on Christmas ]']' e -V ltl X ," w Y " l,rV Kvn: nr w] ' f » (liristunis Day and New YrarV Day fall on Momlay, then till eleveii (i Hock at jiiglil on the Saturday preceding tln>/-R days." This allows occupiers of shops iJurins he present and next week to liavn ono, late nißht. op to iiini! o'clock, and in iiuilitiou to remain open iiulil 11 p rrt on the two Saturday nights, without it boms necessary to obtain permits or pa'y overtime, ll was however, to be specially noted by shopkeepers whose houi 1 -- «;•<! fixed by rcqnii-iiinii, that, the requisitions must on adhered to. The nbore-quoted .section makes special provision tor the two niphts named and Rives, Rerordinsr to Mr. GrenlVll, 'occupiers ol shops the right to employ a-sM, ants until 11 p.m. on those nights, in? depcndeutly of the other provisions of the Act.