§ 54. Mr. C. DUNCANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department 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 overtime they may work; and, if so, when this practice was introduced?
§ Mr. McKENNAThere has been no such practice in the Home Office. The grant of the half-holiday on alternate Saturdays is, by the Order in Council, conditional on the state of business permitting it, but this has not been understood in the Home Office as limiting overtime pay for special work done out of ordinary office hours.