WORK ON RELIEF
EFFECT OF LEGISLATION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 2.3. The recent legislation, particularly the amendments abolishing the distinction between relief workers and industrial workers, was referred to by Mr Butler, the national secretary of the General and Municipal Workers’ Federation, to-day. “The term ‘relief worker’ is now a thing of the past. The position,” he said, “now is, first, the awards and agreements apply to wliat were known as relief workers; second, the men must join the union where the award exists covering the work they are doing; third, the unions can make representations on behalf of the men; fourth, overtime and other award conditions apply; fifth, the onus is on the employing authority to see that the men become members of the union under whose award they are working.” The men, he said, now had the same rights and privileges in the eyes of the law as any industrial worker.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 24 July 1936, Page 2
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154WORK ON RELIEF Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 24 July 1936, Page 2
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