40-HOUR WEEK
BUILDING INDUSTRY
NO SATURDAY WORK
THIRTY-ONE AWARDS
Thirty-one awards governing conditions in the building industry are to be amended to provide for a 40----hour 5-day week after September 1, an order to that effect being made by the Arbitration Court in a decision given today. Applications from sixty factory occupiers for an extension of hours to 44' per week were refused.
The workers affected^ by the applications were carpenters, joiners, plumbers, bricklayers, painters, plasterers, electrical workers, and labourers. When the case was heard the employers did not call evidence, but it was submitted that the shorter working week would lead to an increase in the cost of building and inconvenience because of lost time due to wet weather.
In the absence of reasonable evidence that "it would be impracticable to carry on the industry efficiently" with the reduced hours, the judgment stated, an order for a 40-hour week had to be made. The various awards and agreements would accordingly be amended by reducing the hours fixed to 40 per week, to be worked from Monday to Friday inclusive.
Rates of pay are to be adjusted so that the ordinary weekly earnings shall not be reduced by reason of the shorter hours.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 10
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20340-HOUR WEEK Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 10
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