RELIEF WORKERS
NEW STATUS AND RIGHTS.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON July 23.
The effect of the recent legislation, particularly the amendments abolishing the distinction between relief workers and industrial workers, was referred to, to-day, by Mr. Butler, National Secretary General of the Municipal Workers’ Federation. He said: The term relief worker is now a thing of the past. The position now is first, awards and agreements apply to what were known as relief workers; second, men must join a union where an award exists covering the work they are doing. Third, unions can make representations on behalf of the men; fourth, overtime and other award conditions apply; fifth, the onus is on the employing authority to see that the men become members of the union, under whose award they are working.
The men, he said, now have the same rights and privileges in the eyes of the law as any industrial worker.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1936, Page 7
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