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‘Stores Need
More Peak
Hour Staff
BRISBANE, Thursday. —
If trained, newly’ married
young women could .be em
ployed during peak hours in
Brisbane stores, chaotic
trading conditions could be
eased, Mr. K. Shaw (for the
Retailers’ Association of
Queensland) told the In
dustrial Court today.
The association applied for
a number of variations to the
shop assistants’ award. Mr.
Shaw said that the main ob
ject of the application was to
ensure that a .better service
was given to the public.
The busiest hours for the
retail trade in Brisbane wer*>
rrom 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It was
at this time that retail stores
were without a full comple
ment of stall owing to the
fact that at least one-third
Df the staff was absent on
lunch between 11.30 a.m. and
2.30 p.m.
Mr. Shaw asked that per
mission be granted for per
manent part time employees
to be engaged to commence
work at 10 or 11 a.m. He
suggested they . should work
to 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. He said
there was an ever increasing
pool of trained newly mar
ried women available .who
would welcome employment of
this type.
Mr. Shaw also submitted an
application that the midday
meal hour outside Brisbane
be altered from noon to 2
p.m., to 11.30 a.m, to 2.30
He said the existing meal
hour conditions In Brisbane
applied with equal force to
other cities such ns Too
woomba, Bundaberg, Gymple.
Maryborough, Ipswich; War
wick and Stanthorpe.
In these cities industrial
growth had been phenomenal
and traders were finding It
impossible to cope with mid
day trading on half staffs.
Mr. V. Hefferan (for the
Shop Assistants’ Union) op
posed the' schemes. He said
that introduction of per
manent part time employees
was a dangerous backward
step fraught with unlimited
danger of abuse.
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