DOMESTIC SERVANTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 19 June 1936, Page 14

DOMESTIC SERVANTS

FORMATION OF UNIONS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, .June 18. Since the clause dealing with workers not- employed for tho pecuniary gain of the employers had been deleted from the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bi"T provision would have to he made in some other Act to safeguard the conditions and wages of domestic servants and others eliminated, said the Minister of Labour (Hon. ft. T. Armstrong), in an interview to-day. “I am not in a position to say what form this legislation will take.” said the Minister, “but T have been discussing it for some time with my colleagues and with the officers of the Department nf Labour. Incidentally, there never has been anything in tho law of the country to prevent domestic servants from forming unions, but probably if they bad formed unions and applied for awards the fact that they were not employed for peeuni.'vy gain would have ruled them out. For certain reasons, however, it lias not been considered advisable in tho meantime to bring domestic servants and others into the scope of legislation, but I can snv that it would no doubt be to the decided advantage of domestic servants to form a union and it would even he mo-e helnful to the Government than otherwise for them to do so. AVe do net intend to discourage them in doing that.”