MANPOWER CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 4, 29 September 1944, Page 6

MANPOWER CONTROL

Minor alterations to the Industrial Manpower Emergency Regulations were gazetted last evening. “The amendment,” said the Minister of Industrial Manpower, Mr. McLagan, “does not introduce any new measures. From time to time, however, it is desirable to review existing measures and to make any amendments which experience has shown to be necessary or desirable. The present amendment affects the principal regulations on the following points:— “(1) It has been made clearer that no termination of employment in an essential undertaking is of any effect till the consent of the manpower officer has been obtained and proper notice given; (2) it has also been made clearer that where a worker has a claim to payment of wages up to the date of termination by the manpower officer, the money so due may he recovered in the same manner as if it were wages due under an award; (3) in view of the recent Court proceedings regarding the provisions in the regulations relating to payment of a minimum weekly wage, it has also been found desirable to substitute Hie word ‘payment’ for the word ‘wage’ in this connexion (the existing Minimum Weekly Wage (Essential Undertakings) Order No. 2 is not .affected) ; (4) the only other point of amendment is a redrafting of the clause dealing with consent to engage labour, but this amendment makes no alteration in the scope or effect of the Employment Restriction Order now in operation.”