EQUAL PAY COUNCIL

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30274, 29 October 1963, Page 2

EQUAL PAY COUNCIL

Report To N2. Conference The position of women union employees had not improved and the efforts of the New Zealand Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity were now being directed to this field, said a report on the council’s work submitted to the biennial conference of the New Zealand Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs yesterday. "It is for the unions themselves to negotiate their own terms with employers, but the council can serve a useful purpose as an Information centre and as <m organ for the enlistment of public support,” said the biennial report of Mias P. L. Gepper (Wellington), one of the federation’s two representatives on the council

The council’s first objective, equal pay in the State services, had been granted last year, the report added. This lead by the Government bad hoped for effect on other employers; the National Airways Corporation, for instance, had also granted equal pay to women employees The Local Bodies Officers’ Union had. in conciliation, gained equal pay for women in the first three steps of the hospital board clerical workers’ salary scale. During the last two years six more organisations bed affiliated to the council, bringing the total number of full members to 25. Circulars on equal pay had been forwarded to unions for distribution, press statements had been made and other forms of publicity bad been used, the report said. Miss R. Hardie, the federation’s other representative is the council's treasurer, and Miss Gepper has served on the council’s executive committee.