INCENTIVE PAY IN INDUSTRY
MEANS OF INCREASING PRODUCTION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 25. Commenting on the cable message that the Trades Union Congress recommended incentive payments to workers to increase production, the secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation (Mr C. G. Camp) said this question had been under consideration by members for some time. Such payment had always been associated with piecework. Some members gave bonuses to employees as incentive payment. Unions in New Zealand did not want piecework, but an additional incentive payment. The Employers’ Federation would discuss the'whole question of incentive payments at the forthcoming annual meeting. It would be one of the main items of business. For the Federation of Labour the secretary (Mr K. McL. Baxter) said its policy concerning such payments was that. production increases could be facilitated by the adoption of a method of price-fixing. It would also be necessary to give workers financial inducement to produce more. If workers were given an increase in their awards in proportion to increased production, nothing but good could result.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25246, 26 July 1947, Page 8
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