40-HOUR WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 6

40-HOUR WEEK

FURTHER EXTENSIONS

BUTCHERS' SHOPS

In judgments delivered by Mr. Justice Page in the Arbitration Court yesterday, an extension in the weekly/ working hours to 44 was granted in three of four cases. The workers affected by the decisions are the tanners and fellmongers in Canterbury and Otago, the manure, tallow, acid, soap, and candle workers in ■, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, and butchers (workers in shops arid' factories) in Wellington, Canterbury, puncdin, and Oamaru. Orders in all cases will come into force ori September 1, arid will be for twelve months.

"In all cases the Court stated that in its opinion it was impracticable to carry on the industries efficiently on a 40-hour week. It therefore made orders fixing at 44 the maximum number of hours (exclusive of overtime) to be worked in any week. The Court in" its judgment on the applications by Wilson's (N.Z.) Portland Cement, Ltd., Golden Bay Cement Works, Ltd., and the Milburn Lime and Cement Co., Ltd., stated that the parties had come to an arrangement and had requested the ,Court merely to make an order that the limit of 4} hours without an interval for a meal be extended to eight hours in the case of shift workers, and to .five hours in the case of other workers on occasions when such extension was necessary to finish a job in hand. Orders would be made accordingly, and would come into force on September 1, and would continue in force until August 31, 1939.