EMPLOYER FEDERATION.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 38, 7 September 1905, Page 3

EMPLOYER FEDERATION.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Wellington, Sept. 6. The annual conference of the New Zealand Employers' Federation opened to-day. The following resolutions were adopted : - That in the opinion of this Federation the old principle of the indenture or apprenticeship is now obsolete, and should be abolished. We strongly recommend the certificate system which has been recently adopted by the Arbitration Court in cases where the limitation or regulation of the employment of young persons is insisted upon. - That this federation strongly affirms the principle of payment for services rendered. It does not object to payment of overtime, but where overtime prevails wages should be determined by the number of hours actually worked. That subject to the provisions of the Factories Act we insist tbat it is unfair that employers should have to pay for holidays when do value is rendered.— That the policy of preference to unionists being contrary to the individual rights of a private citizen, and it having been declared ultra vires by the highest authority in the Commonwealth, this federation agree to contest this demand. — That employment of young people in various trades or occupations calling for such employment should not in any way be restricted unices it can be shown to the satisfaction of the Arbitration Court that such employment would be detrimental to an individual bo employed.