SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT
AMENDMENTS DESIEED BY SHOP ■ ASSISTANTS. Br Telesrapn—Press Awnciation Christchurch, August 12. _ This evening the Shop Assistants' Union met the local members of Parliament to discuss amendments desired in the Shops and Offices Act. The movement, which is a Dominion one, aims at. a universal half-holiday, the abolition of the late night, a m hours' week, time worked before. 8 a.m.. and utter b.M p.m. to be paid for at overtime rates, no work after noon on Saturdays, the weeklv half-holidnv to bo observed notwithstanding that another holiday has taken place in the same week, repeal of the provision that an'employee receiving over 775. 6d. is not. entitled to overtime, and declaring Easter Saturday a public holiday. The union also desires to insert a clause in the Act preventing Hie employment of child assistants on Saturday nights and Sundays. The discussion was taken in committe, and it was subseqnej.tlv announced that the legislators present favoured most ot the amendment*,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 272, 13 August 1919, Page 6
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162SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 272, 13 August 1919, Page 6
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