WOMEN'S WAGES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 11

WOMEN'S WAGES

RIGHT OF APPEAL TO COURT

Periodical revival and extension, at the instance of the workers, of orders made by the Arbitration Court fixing the-minimum rate of wages for female workers is provided for in the Finance BiU read a first time in tho House on Saturday. ,

If orders have expired they may be revived and continued in operation for not less than six months or more than 12 months;-and extended for a similar period in cases where the orders have not expired." A'further provision enables renewals from time to time to be revived arid extended,. or extended as the case may require. Orders made under this authority may vary the terms of the original order as the Court thinks fit and define or redefine the classes of workers by reference to the nature of the work or the industry or both.

No orders under the new provisions are to be made except on the appliea; tion of the clerk of awards, made at the request of the workers' union representing the females affected. Applications may be made one month before or three months after the. expiry of the orders.