WORKING OVERTIME.
''SWEATING IN WAREHOUSES.”
‘•lts exemptions kti'l it,” said the Hon. J. T. Raul, in referring to the Shops ami Offices Act, w'hen addressing a large gathering of shop assistants at Dunedin last week. There ~**Sv ere, he remarked, many serious blemishes about the Act, which should be eliminated lat the earliest opportunity. They frequently read of cases of sweating in ■'warehouses and unnecessary working of overtime by clerks. There had come under his notice the case of a certain firm in the city, which understood that if it worked its clerks overtime they would have to be paid overtime. The result was that for a year little or no overtime was worked, hut next year the firm in question found that there exemption from overtime, and result was that during that and the successive year a great deal of overtime was worked. It, simply meant that a great deal of work that should have been distributed over a large number of hands was being performed by a few, who had to work overtime. The exemptions l in the Shops and Offices Act were such as to call for immediate amendment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2379, 21 December 1908, Page 7
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192WORKING OVERTIME. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2379, 21 December 1908, Page 7
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