Higher Margins For Skilled Workers
.■L < > > (Rec. 11 pm.) MELBOURNE, Nov. S. The Arbitration Court agreed unanimously today to grant increases in the pay margins for skilled workers in the metal trades industry. considerate one probably affecting the wages of skilled workers throughout the country, was to determine whether the workers’ margins for skill should be increased to compensate for decreased purchasing power of Increases approved by the Court range from 42s fid down to 7s. The Chief Justice, Sir Raymond Kelly. «»id ‘he principle generally applied in the new assessment was to increase 1937 margins by two and a half times.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 7
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