ARBITRATION
DISSATISFACTION WITH AWARD TERMS. (Per Press Association —Copyright). WELLINGTON, February 9. Dissatisfaction with the . terms of an award and with the constitution of the Arbitration Court was expressed at a, meeting yesterday of 1 workers engaged in a wool, hide, and gniaV stores factory. That Saturday morning work is to be paid at ordinary time rates, was severely criticised, and an opinion was expressed that the court in providing ordinary rates violated the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act and Factories Act, which stated that all time worked over 40 hours should he paid for at time and a half, and where practicable, Saturday morning work shall be eliminated.
In joining with Unions in other districts in condemning the decision of the court to reduce permanent hands’ wages by 1/6 per week, the meeting placed on record its opinion that there had been a ’violation of the Labour Government’s pledge that where there was a forty hour week, existing wages would not be reduced. Exception was i Iso taken to retrospective wages being paid from January 1 only, and not from December.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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