INCREASED WAGE AGREEMENTS
SANCTION OF COURT NECESSARY COMMENT BY MR JUSTICE TYNDALL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 17. Payment of increases in wages agreed upon between employers and employees but not authorised by the Court of Arbitration were illegal, said Mr Justice Tyndall to-day, when Mr R. Stanley, appearing in a dispute for the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union, mentioned a “recent award” for dairy factory workers by which payments of £6 2s 3d weekly were being made, which was more than skilled workers’ rates. His Honour said that no such new award had been issued. He understood that an agreement had been reached between the parties. However, the secretary of the workers’ union had not yet replied to the Court’s request to justify the increased rates mentioned in the agreement. Mr Stanley: I understand that that increase is being paid. His Honour: Then it is not being paid legitimately. “Have you ever heard of the Court turning down an agreement?” added his Honour. Mr Stanley admitted that he had. “I turned one down the other day,” said his Honour. “The employers may have agreed to pay this increase you mentioned, but it is not authorised. There is no new award permitting it.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25162, 18 April 1947, Page 8
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