Wages up 6.8 p.c.
PA Wellington Adult male wage' and salary rates rose by 6.8 per cent in the year ended March 31, according to the nominal weekly wage rates index released by the Statistics Department. This compares with 17.2 per cent in the March, 1977, year and 10.6 per cent in the 1976 year. The index shows the movement in adult male wage and salary rates fixed by or within the jurisdiction of the former Industrial Commission (now replaced bv the Arbitration Court). It
also shows minimum rates, generally mandatory rates, fixed by other authorities. In the March quarter this year, naminal weekly rates fixed by the Industrial Commission increased by 1.5 per cent on the previous December quarter, and by other authorities by 0.1 per cent, giving an ’ all-authorities movement of 1 per cent. The effective weekly wage rate in the March quarter, however, fell by 0.5 per cent over the December quarter in the Industrial Commission area, and by 1.9 per cent in that for all other authorities, giving an over-all effective decrease of 1 per cent.
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