SHOPS AND OFFICE BILL.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 July 1901, Page 4

SHOPS AND OFFICE BILL.

A very Drastic Measure.

Hours, Holidays, and rate of pay regulated.

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Wellington, This Day. The Pioneer Consolidating Measure of the session has been introduced in the Legislative Council. This is the Shops and OlHces Bill, the new provisions in which are briefly as follows ■ The extended working hours permitted in connection with stocktaking in shops are to be paid for at halt as much again as the ordinary rate, but this overtime payment shall not bo less than sixpence an hour for assistants whose wages do not exceed 10/- weekly, in the case of any other assistant. The section which exempts fishmongers, fruiterers, confectioners and railway station bookstdl keepers from observing statutory closing day is made subject to an important limitation. Anyone of the four excepted that is carried on in conjunction with a bus ness not ihus excepted comes within the scope of the closing provisions.

Further the exemption given to the four businesses shall not affect the right of any shop employed in any such business to a half holiday on any working day selected by the occupier. ~ Fishmonger is defined as a person ■MHteKness is to sell fish or shell cr is one who sells fresh and a confectioner ms of sweet moats, “ a person Xtrae-

It is provided that where an office assistant is lawfully employed _ after hours, according to statute exemptions, a messenger or caretaker may be employed to attend on him. The exemptions referred to are: (a). Cashier engaged in balancing his cash book.

(b) A Icdgcrkecpcr balancing his ledger. (c) An office assistant engaged in halfyearly or yearly balance. (d) An officer or assistant clearing up arrears of work. The last two and the messenger are to be paid for work done after office hours at time and a half with a minimum of 1/an hour. An “ extra time hook ”isto be kept to record employment after hours to be open for inspection, and the latter may require the occupier to verify entries by statutory declaration.

In the case of wholesale warehouses, the Bill proposes to close them at 1 o’clock on Saturdays (or such day as the district observes for its statutory halfholiday) and 6 o’clock on other working days, and they must be locked or otherwise effectually closed against admission of the public. The half-holiday shall be paid at the same rate as working days. Extended hours are permitted for stack-taking in wholesale warehouses, to be paid for at the rate of time and a-half with a minimum of Is an hour.

For sanitation purposes a sufficient supply of fresh water shall bo provided for the free use of persons employed in shops, offices and warehouses. In food, shops doing business in any article for human consumption such as bread, meat, milk, confectionery, the Inspector may, on suspicion as to the state of the health of any employee, give notice to the latter to submit himself for medical examination. The employee and the occupier shall, after the giving of the notice, be liable to a penalty of £2 a day if the employee does any work in or about the shop until ho has received a medical certificate that the state of his health is not likely to convey disease germs or other contamination to the food.

The form and manner of serving on any occupiers requisitions by the Inspector are set forth and the occupier is given the opportunity of appealing within seven days to the Magistrate who may confirm, reverse, or modify the requisition.

The fact that an occupier is liable to a penalty under the Act for non-payment of wages or salary in respect of a holiday shall not relieve him from his civil liability to make the payment.

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