44-HOUR WEEK
ESTIMATED COST ON NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS. (Rec. October 14, 0.10 a.m.) Sydney, October 13. A special Court under the Eight Hours Amendment Act has decided that from December 1 all railway and tramway employees engaged on construction works involving capital expenditure as distinguished from expenditure which is a direct charge on revenue, shall werk forty-four hours weekly. The Railway Commissioner, giving evidence, estimated that a forty-four-hour week for the whole service would cost an additional £811,618 annually.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 17, 14 October 1921, Page 7
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8144-HOUR WEEK Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 17, 14 October 1921, Page 7
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