INDUSTRIAL AWARDS
AGENT SPRINGS SURPRISE
MANY MAY BE INVALID
(By Telegraph.—Press, Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The opinion that.in consequence of a recent judgment of the Appeal Court many industrial awards are invalid was expressed in the Arbitration Court' today.
In opposing certain applications by two clothing trade unions the agent for tho employers, Mr. Wright, said that one cllause provided that piecework was not allowed. That, was a' contradiction to section 11 of the Amendment Act of 1932. Mr. Wright made a similar submission regarding several other clauses.
Miss Cossey and Mr. Mo^om said that Mr. Wright had sprung a ■ surprise. Clauses similar to those now challenged had been customary in awards for years. If the Appeal Court-decision was correct the agreements were not worth, the, paper they were written on. Mr. Justice. Frazer said, that the Appeal Court. decision applied retrospectively. . Mr. Moxom said that the clause giving union secretaries the right of entry to workers had been agreed to for years. It came as a surprise that such a clause in an award now invalidated the whole award. It meant that there would hardly be an award in existence in the Dominion..
His Honour said he would not, like to say how' many- awards would be affected.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1933, Page 11
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