CASUAL WORKERS
Earnings Below Basic Wage Rate
MINISTER’S ATTITUDE
By Telegraph—Press Association Auckland. February 15.
“I sincerely regret to learn that, owing to broken time the income of so many workers has fallen below the basic 'wage and would willingly assist in the direction indicated in your letter if it was advisable to do so,” states the Minister of Employment, Hon. H. T. Armstrong, in replying to recent suggestions made by the Auckland Builders and General Labourers’ Union that the earnings of casual workers should be supplemented from the Unemployment Fund to bring them up to the level of the basic wage of £3/16/-. It was pointed out to the Minister that members of the union had suffered hardship in recent weeks owing to lengthy spells of inclement weather. “I can assure you that the matter has received very earnest consideration, and I regret it does not appear to be practicable to increase the present maximum allowable income or to vary the provisions for the adjustment of relief as set out in the current regulations,” added the Minister.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 121, 16 February 1937, Page 10
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