CORPORATION EMPLOYEES
FIVE DAY WEEK GENERAL SN WELLINGTON [Per United Peess Association.] . WELLINGTON, September 24. A committee consisting ot the mayor (Mr T. C. A. Hislop) and the chairmen of committees was this afternoon appointed by the Wellington City Council to bring in a five-day week in the council offices where possible. It was explained in the report concerning the proposal that an extra half-hour of work on ordinary days would be necessary if the employees were to be free on Saturdays. In some departments at least some of the staff would have to’ be kept on on Saturdays. . The council decided at a previous meeting that the officers' 4 under the control of the Works- Committee should not work on Saturday, and the five-day week is now in force in that department, the daily hours being extended by half an hour to enable the staff to cope with the work.
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Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 14
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151CORPORATION EMPLOYEES Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 14
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