’Minimum Wage * For Juniors
>97.1 (Special) WELLINGTON. This Day. )nd The very comprehensive Factorie: be Act passed last session operates Iron January 1. Although largely a consolidation o jmany measures on the subject, the op | portunity was taken to introduce : number of new clauses providing ad Iditionai requirements for the safe - k ' | guarding of health and general im es ’ | provem_nts of conditions in New Zea e ®’ land factories. nd A minimum wage for juniors is nov (stipulated by law, the new Act providing that the weekly wage must be a' } least 22/6. to be increased by haliet. yearly increments of at least 5/- pei 3 (week until the weekly rate is £2/12/6 I However, the keen competition l'oi | factory labour at present will mear I that the new provisions have only ar /b 3 j academic interest to the Dominion’: _ | manufacturers.
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Northern Advocate, 11 January 1947, Page 7
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141’Minimum Wage * For Juniors Northern Advocate, 11 January 1947, Page 7
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