FORTNIGHTLY PAY.
NO VARIATION FOR CASUALS. (Special to "Northern Advocate.") WELLINGTON, This Day. Now that Civil Service employees are to be paid fortnightly instead of monthly the question has arisen as to whether casual and co-operative workers on public works will be paid fortnightly. Yesterday afternoon the Minister, the Hon. ,T. G. Coates, stated, 011 the assumption that the work done by cooperative contractors would be measured up and that all the usual proceedings regarding half pay to wives and so on were carried out fortnightly, the additional cost of this would be about £10,000 a, year. Under the existing workers' agreement, in cases of necessity, the men could get advances up to 75 per cent, of their earnings, and as many of them paid 110 rent and could get credit from the departmental canteens, cookhouses, etc., the alteration did not appear to be warranted. Men working in the cities were already paid fortnightly.
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Northern Advocate, 21 August 1924, Page 5
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154FORTNIGHTLY PAY. Northern Advocate, 21 August 1924, Page 5
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