CHILD ENDOWMENT
NEW SOUTH WALES ACT.
VALIDITY QUESTIONED. ITS APPLICATION TO' WAGES. IY CABLE—PB ESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 10.50 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY, July 1. The question of the validity of the Child Endowment/ Actt, particularly in its. application to employees bound by 'Federal awards, was discussed by the Federal Arbitration Court, when a number of firm® engaged in the timber industry, .applied for an order calling on the Australian Timber Workers' Union to is, how cause why the wages .should not be reduced in proportion to wlia.t it cost the employers dor endowment taxation.
judge Lukin, having regard to the wide application of any decision lie might make, referred the matter to 'Full Court. It was pointed out that Federal awards are based on a living wage for it man, bis wife and three children land the New .South Wales awards on a wage for si man and his wife only.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 July 1927, Page 5
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151CHILD ENDOWMENT Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 July 1927, Page 5
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