§ 74. Mr. CHARLES DUNCANasked the President of the Board of Education whether it is the practice in his Department for clerks engaged upon overtime to be required either to forego the usual Saturday half-holiday or to sacrifice the pay for the first three hours of any over time they may work; and, if so, when this practice was introduced?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. J. A. Pease)Under Clause 14 of the Order in Council of 10th January, 1910, officers are required to attend not less than seven hours a day, but are allowed a half-holiday on alternate Saturdays, provided that the head of their Department is satisfied that the progress of public business will not be prejudiced thereby. In the case of ray Department the Treasury have required that no clerk shall be paid for overtime work in any week in which he has not worked for forty-two hours without overtime pay. It follows that a clerk who is absent on any Saturday afternoon cannot receive pay for the first three hours of any overtime that he may have worked during that week. This arrangement has been in force since January, 1906, when a substantial increase in the clerical establishment of the Board was made on that condition.