§ Mr. CAUTLEYasked the Minister of Labour (1) whether it is intended by the Hours of Employment (No. 2) Bill to prohibit every man after he has worked forty-eight hours in any one week from working for any other employer in any time in that week or from working for his own employer for more hours at overtime rate than are agreed between him and his employer's trade union or association;
(2) whether it is intended by the Hours of Employment (No. 2) Bill to prohibit every man, after working eight hours in one day, from working on the same day for any other employer in the same or any other trade or occupation?
§ Sir R. HORNEThe Hours of Employment (No. 2) Bill deals with the total hours of employment in a week and not with the hours permissible in any one day. Under Section 8 (1) (h) it is provided that the Act will not apply so as to prevent a person who ceases his employment with one employer and commences his employment with another employer in the course of the same week, from being employed 78W by the subsequent employer in accordance with the hours customarily worked by persons in his own employment. This provision might not be held to cover the case of persons employed in a class of employment subsidiary to their main class of employment, under concurrent contracts in the same week, and I am considering how far it may be desirable to meet the point by an Amendment to the Bill. As regards the limitation of individual overtime, I would refer the hon. Member to the provisions of Clause 4 of the Bill. It is not contemplated that an employé will be permitted to work more overtime hours than are generally applicable under the Bill to the class of employment in which he is employed.