WAGE ANOMALY

Grey River Argus, 14 May 1943, Page 4

WAGE ANOMALY

CASE HEARD BY ARBITRATION COURT.

P.A. CHRISTCHURCH. May 13. One of the first applications under Regulation 38 of the ■ Stabilisation Emergency Regulations, giving the Court of Arbitration power t 0 adjust anomalies, was heard by. the Court to-day. It was in the ‘form of an application for a new award for bacon workers in the Canterbury and Otago and Southland districts, and the point at issue was wages, the Union claiming that they should be the same as in the Northern District, and the employers offering the scale of the old award. The increases sought by the Um™ ai ’ e 5s and 5s 6d a week for adult males, and 2s 6d for youths. Lhe point was argued whether the South Island wages were anomalous having regard to tne wages paid in other parts of New Zealand The Union contended that in wartime the South Island workers had no advantage m being paid a- weekly rate over the North Island workers on an hourly basis, and suffered because the hourly rate amounted to more for a week’s work than their weeklv payment. ' ■ Ths Court reserved its decision.