PEGGING OF WAGES
ANOMALIES ALLEGED AUSTRALIAN - * TRADESMEN REVIEW AFTER THE WAR (9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dee. 0. Members of the executive of the Australian Council of Trades Unions, now meeting here, expect that a decision on the executive’s request for. an amendment oi the? war-time wage-pegging regulations will be made by the Federal council this week.. Wage-pegging was introduced by national security regulation on November 2, 1942, and the regulations set out that wages shall remain pegged at the existing levels and shall not be varied unless an anomaly can be shown to exist. The unions claim that the term “anomaly” has not been interpreted sufficiently widely, and that the pegging of wages has resulted in injustices. The . trades unions are also' seeking the general introduction of the 40-hour week and a minimum of two weeks’’ -annual holiday for all workers, to come into force six months after the war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 4
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