NO PAY-OUTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 188, 10 August 1936, Page 8

NO PAY-OUTS.

WAGES RESTORATION.

COMPLAINTS BY WORKERS.

SECRETARIES APPROACHED.

Complaints that in some cases employers neglected last Friday to restore wages to the 1931 level, and to make retrospective payments to July 1 to employees covered by awards and agreements as required by the Finance Amendment Act, have been received by several trades union secretaries in Auckland. Mr. H. Campbell, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council and the Auckland Painters' Union, said tliis morning that secretaries had received innumerable complaints in the matter. They had been telling members of their unions all last week that they would receive the restoration of the cuts last Friday, and naturally when they did not receive the new rates they complained bitterly about the matter. In some cases men had been paid the 1931 rates, but had not received the back pay, but in others they had received absolutely nothing additional. Mr. Campbell maintained that the Act was clear that the restoration of the cuts, together with retrospective payments, should have been made last week, and failure by employers to comply with the provisions of it made employers liable to be proceeded against "As if he had committed a breach of an award or industrial agreement." He further stated that employers generally did not wait until they received a copy of the Act to put into force the general order reducing wages in 1931, but made the reductions applicable immediately.