SUNDAY WORK.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19892, 22 May 1936, Page 8

SUNDAY WORK.

OPERATION IN FACTORIES. DOUBLE PAY PROVISION. AMENDMENTS TO BILL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Amendments to the Factories Amendment Bill in regard to wages payable for holidays and for Sunday work were made by the Labour Bills Committee of the Legislative Council to-day. The Bill was read a first time and a second time pro forma by the council this afternoon and then referred to the Labour Bills Committee, which later reported the bill to the Council with amendments.

Under the Bill as passed by the House of Representatives a worker was entitled to payment for special holidays which are enumerated in the Bill if he had been employed for any time during 14 days prior to the holiday. This would have enabled an employee who was employed by several employers to claim payment for the holiday from each employer. The object of the amendment made by the committee is to make it clear that a worker shall be paid only once for the holiday. In connection with Sunday work, when the Bill left the House it stipulated that any worker employed on a Sunday could claim double rates in addition to the ordinary rate, or treble time. The amendment made by the committee provides that in any factory where work is regularly performed on Sunday any worker shall be entitled to one day’s pay for work on Sunday in addition to his ordinary week’s pay. That is, he will receive double pay. % Wool dumping factories and low temperature coal carbonisation factories are added to the schedule of those industries exempted from the 40-hour week. An amendment has also msde making the Act. operative from July 1 instead of June 1. and, as is the case with the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment BIM the 40hour week Is made operative from September 1 instead of July 1. The Council adjourned