Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the Minister of Munitions if he is aware that in some controlled establishments where women are engaged on work usually done by men they are being compelled to start work earlier than the men employed on the same work and to remain at work after the men have left work; that they are not receiving any extra pay for this; and whether he will give instructions that women so employed must not work longer hours than the men engaged on the same work or, if they are, that they must be paid extra for it?
Mr. PRIMROSEI have inquired into this matter, and find chat in the only department where men and women work together the same hours are worked by both, namely, fifty hours. In this department the women receive exactly the same overtime rates as the men, namely, time and a quarter for the first two hours and time and a half thereafter, with double time for Sundays. In other departments in which no women are engaged, the carpenters and joiners, according to their union rules, are working forty-seven hours.