FIVE PER CENT. CUT
NELSON COUNCIL DECISION. MINIMUM WAGE FIXED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, June 19. Nelson city lias made a cut of 5 per cent, in all salaries and wages, with the following exceptions : The cut shall not affect full-time employees in receipt of less than £lO4 per annum nor the wages of those who, although networking under an award, would by a 5 per cent, reduction be reduced to wages below the amount received by those affected by the 10 per cent, cut when working elsewhere under an award. . . The whole question will be revived at the end of the financial year. The resolution will become operative on July 1.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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