PRIVATE WORK IN SPARE TIME

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 11

PRIVATE WORK IN SPARE TIME

Action By Employers Criticized “Difficulty has been experienced as' the result of employees (apprentices and journeymen) taking work for private individuals, and in some eases other employers, after their day’s work has been done and, also on Saturday morning.” states the New Zealand Coach and Motor Body* Builders’ Industrial Association of Employers in its annual report. “This abuse is perhaps partly caused by the amended law which reduced the weekly hours of employment on the pretence that greater leisure time should be available to workers. “The effect has, in some cases, been found to be detrimental not only to the employers but also to the men who, with the greater leisure, can more readily crib on the business of the employers by taking private work. “The parties when making the Wellington, Canterbury and Westland Coachworkers’ Award, with a view to stopping this form of unfair competition, agreed on a clause making it an offence for a worker to carry out coachbuilder’s work for any persons, firms or companies other than their own employers. The Court of Arbitration. however, objected to its inclusion, making only a reference to it in the memorandum. “Your executive strongly recommends all members to do their utmost to prevent apprentices and journeymen from taking private work outside of regular award hours.”