§ 52. Mr. R. C. Morrisonasked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the wide-spread desire of workers to get home before darkness sets in, he will consider an adjustment of Home Office regulations during the winter months enabling the daily meal-time to be reduced to half an hour and work to continue on Saturday afternoons until sunset thus enabling a normal wage to be earned in daylight?
§ Sir J. AndersonI understand that the question of re-arranging the usual working hours and meal-times and of including at any rate some work on Saturday afternoon, with a view to working so far as possible in daylight, is under discussion between employers and workpeople in various industries and if in any particular factory or industry it appears that to enable such arrangements to be made some modification is required of the provisions of the Factories Act which regulate the employment of women and young persons, I shall be willing to consider the question of granting appropriate exemptions.