Retrospective Wage Reductions?
If a new award should ever reduce a worker’s wages would he have to repay his employer all the money he had been overpaid since the date the dispute was first set down . for hearing in the Conciliation Council? The possibility that 'he would was mentioned in the Arbitration Court in Wellington yesterday in discussion on the law'making the Court’s pro* nouncements retrospective. This had formerly affected only employers who have had to pay any such increases. “Some day the people who put this into the Act will be sorry,” said Mr J. R. Hanlon,’ advocate for the employers, in an industrial dispute before the Court yesterday.—P.A.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 124, 10 March 1950, Page 2
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