WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1919, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

SHOP ASSISTANTS. ALTERATIONS IX THE ACT REQUIRED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, i Christchurch, Last Night. This evening the Shop Assistants' Union met the local members of Parliament to discuss amendments desired in the Phops and Offices Act. The movement, which is a Dominion one, aims at tv universal half-holiday, the abolition of the late night, 4(ls hours a week, time worked before 8 a.m. and after 5.30 p.m. to l>c paid for at overtime rates, no work after noon on Saturdays, a weekly half-holiday to be observed notwithstanding that another holiday lias taken place in the same week, the repeal of the provision that an employee receiving over 77s (id is not entitled to overtime, and declaring Easter Saturday a publia holiday. The union also desires to insert a clause in the Act'preventing the employment of child assistants on Saturday nights and Sundays. Discussion was taken in committee, and it was subsequently announced that legislators present favored most of the amendments. COMPENSATION CLAIM FAILS. •By Telegraph-—Press Assn.—*Gopyrlsht. Sydney, Aug. I*2. In the District Court Elizabeth McCormack, of Auckland, claimed £SOO compensation from the John Craig Co. for tho death of her husband, a seaman, whom she alleged died from injuries received aboard the ship Joan • Craig in the execution of his duty. The verdict was for the defendant company.