Numb. 47 699

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1943
Published by Authority

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1943

The Tobacco Factories Employees’ Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1943

IN pursuance of the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, and of the Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1942, the Minister of Labour doth hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Tobacco Factories Employees’ Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1943.

2. This Order applies to W. D. and H. O. Wills (N.Z.), Limited, and to Godfrey, Phillips (N.Z.), Limited, and to the workers who are employed in the Wellington Industrial District by those companies and whose employment is subject to the provisions of the Northern, Wellington, and Nelson Tobacco-workers’ award dated the 19th day of March, 1943, and recorded in 43 Book of Awards 77.

3. The provisions of all acts and regulations thereunder and of the said award are hereby suspended in so far as any such provisions operate to prevent the workers referred to in clause 2 hereof from being employed on the terms and conditions herein set forth.

4. The hours of work shall be forty-six per week, to be worked from 8 a.m. to 12.15 p.m., 1 p.m. to 4.45 p.m., and three hours commencing not earlier than 5.30 p.m. and finishing not later than 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday of each week, and from 8 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4.45 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of each week : Provided that these hours may by agreement between the management and the workers’ union be varied to provide for an earlier starting hour than 8 a.m. (but not earlier than 7.45 a.m.), for a shorter lunch interval than three-quarters of an hour, and for a re-arrangement of the finishing hours on each day, but so that the hours of work so agreed upon shall not be less than forty-six per week.

5. All time worked in excess of eight hours on any one day shall be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours and double time thereafter.

6. Hours of work in excess of those herein prescribed may be worked by agreement between the management and the workers, payment for such hours being made in accordance with the provisions of the award.

7. On the application of any female worker the management may, subject to the approval of the Man-power Officer, grant such exemption from the hours or work hereinbefore prescribed as the circumstances of such worker may warrant, having regard to the domestic responsibilities of such worker.

8. In all other respects the provisions of the said award shall apply.

9. This Order shall come into effect on the 21st day of June, 1943, and shall continue in force for a period of six months.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of June, 1943.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.

The North Island Electrical Emergency Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1943

IN pursuance of the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Labour doth hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the North Island Electrical Emergency Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1943.

2. This Order applies to workers employed in the North Island of New Zealand and to the employers of such workers.

3. The provisions of all Acts and regulations and orders thereunder, and of all awards and industrial agreements under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and of all agreements under the Labour Disputes Investigation Act, 1913, and of all voluntary agreements, are hereby suspended in so far as they prevent—

(a) Any of the workers referred to in clause 2 hereof from being employed before 8 o’clock in the morning ; and

(b) A reduction in the interval to be allowed such workers for a meal to not less than half an hour ; but such suspension shall be subject to the condition that no female worker or boy employed in a factory shall be required as a result of the making of this Order to commence work earlier than 7.30 o’clock in the morning.

4. This Order shall come into effect on the day of the date hereof and shall continue in force until the expiration of the period of emergency, due to the shortage of electrical power, as determined by the Minister of Supply.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of June, 1943.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.