COUNTY’S OBJECTIONS.
PROPOSED OVERTIME RATES. WAITOMO COUNCIL VIE\V. TE KUITI. Thursday. At ihn meeting at the \Valtomo county Lluuncll yesterday it was de~ cidcd to request the Counties‘ Associa—tion to oppose the Nallonal Federation of General Labourers‘ application for an amurd requesting a 1 minimum rate of pay for luhourei's oi‘ L'l 105 a week at" it) hours and that overtime should be paid at double lime and that treble rates should he paid for work under~ lulu-u on Saturdays, Sundayshor holldays. The cunncll considered that its minimum “uses to labourers should be on the same basis as between the Pubhu Works Department and its pernmnem men. The council could not aii'ord to give attention to such urgent wurks as slips and wash-outs if it had to pay Ilouhle and treble rates. it did not oppose ”it: principle of a ~10huur week, Mr Nicol suggested that the clause in the Act exempting thosc who did not employ i‘ul- pecuniary gum should include L-uunty councils.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 18898, 29 May 1936, Page 2
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164COUNTY’S OBJECTIONS. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 18898, 29 May 1936, Page 2
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