THE AMENDMENTS

Evening Post, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 9

THE AMENDMENTS

PROVISION FOR BANKS

Amendments relating to work in banks, which the Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) said had been approved by the. banks and the Bank Officers' Guild, were made to the Shops and Offices Amendment Bill during the Committee stages.

A new provision stipulates that overtime rates of pay shall apply only to extended hours worked in each fortnight in excess of 80 hours, but in the case of a period of four weeks for the period of each yearly or half-yearly balance a total of 90 hours in each fortnight is permitted before overtime is paid.

The purposes for which an office assistant in a bank may be employed after closing hours are defined as follows: —(1) The balancing of the cash or cash-book after the close of the day's transactions; (2) the periodical balancing of ledgers; (3), the yearly or half-yearly balance of the business of the bank;. (4) the writing up of the books for the day's transactions; (5) the remittance for collection of bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques, and other mercantile instruments drawn on other places; (6) work incidental to the sending by mail out of New Zealand of documents relating to goods exported'or to be exported from New Zealand; (7) special work arising in circumstances of urgency; (8) the clearing up of arrears in office work due to special circumstances, provided that in no case shall an assistant be employed fbr this purpose for more than three hours on any one day or for. more than six days in any one month". '~,'■ ' . \