Labour Court recommends negotiations on salesmen’s 39-hour week

In 1993, the Labour Court recommended that H. M. Keating And Sons Limited and The Bakery And Food Workers' Amalgamated Union negotiate how to apply the working-hours framework to salesmen. The Court made the same 39-hour-week recommendation for service drivers. The Court did not recommend the union’s sixth-day claims. It found no grounds to change service drivers’ negotiated inconvenience differential or existing confectionery rates. It recommended overtime at 1/39th of the weekly rate for each hour after 39, including for part-time workers exceeding 39 hours. For bread-department workers, it found 25% was the agreed traditional night differential and did not recommend the union’s claim. The recommendation was signed on 21 October 1993.