Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Rates of Wages and Hours of Labour: Street Railway Conductors and Motormen; 1914-1919
Leave of Absence - Fifteen agreements arrange for leave of absence. Eleven of these permit a reasonable amount of leave without pay. Of these, one excludes the months of August, September and October; four limit the amount of leave to three months; two limit it to thirty days; three do not specifically limit the period; one does not limit the period but provides for two weeks regular leave on pay each year. Tw'o agreements call for an open book in which to register the desired day 'or days off, seven days notice being required before such will be granted, and then only in order of precedence according to date of entry in the book. One agreement allows one day off in each two weeks. One agree ment' stipulates that only such employees as are absolutely necessary shall work on statutory holidays, and another provides for each employee one day off in seven, including weeks when Sunday work is required of him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.