RISE IN WAGES
EFFECTIVE TOMORROW ONLY AMENDED AWARDS As from tomorrow the standard minimum rates of wages announced by the Arbitration Court on August 15 will come into effect. The rates represent a net increase of approximately 3d an hour for adults above the standard wages fixed in 1945. Employers will have to pay increased, rates this week only to those employees whose awards or agreements have been amended by the court to conform with the terms of its finding. In its pronouncement, the court emphasised that its finding was not a general wages order, but was an indication of the 'rates to which wages in some awards and agreements were likely to be brought. In amending awards and industrial agreements, the court has increased the rates of remuneration of adult female workers broadly to bring them to a level approximately 10s a week above the gross rates provided for in the amendment which followed the 1945 pronouncement. It has followed broadly the practice adopted in 1945 in the case of junior workers.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22447, 30 September 1947, Page 2
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173RISE IN WAGES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22447, 30 September 1947, Page 2
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