HOSPITAL WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 15, 13 October 1942, Page 4

HOSPITAL WORKERS

Auckland Board Wants Six-Day Week

(By Telegraph —Press Associi'tmu.) AUCKLAND, October 10.

In view of the difficulty of obtaining sufficient capable staff, specially for the auxiliary and emergency hospitals, the Auckland Hospital Board is to proceed with an application for permission to employ all hospital workers six days a week without payment of overtime. Following a communication to the Industrial Emergency Council, the board tonight received a letter from that body stating that it had delegated to a standing committee the investigation of all applications for alterations of hours and conditions of awards. The quickest way in which a decision could be reached was with the co-operation of the appointed representatives of the unions concerned. The council advised the board to consult the New Zealand Hospital Boards Union of Employers, to obtain unanimity among the hospital boards aud then through that organization to approach the Federated Hotel and Belated Trades Union in an endeavour to negotiate an agreement. If no agreement was reached application should be made to the Minister of Labour. The board decided to pursue its application along the lines indicated, though doubts as to the wisdom of the decision were expressed by two members.