PAYMENT BY RESULTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19799, 21 November 1927, Page 9

PAYMENT BY RESULTS.

BENEFITS TO THE WORKER. BETTER LIVING STANDARD. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, Nov. 19. Air. William Myhill, secretary .of the Metal Trades Employers' Association, giving evidence before the Child Endowment Commission, declared there would be no necessity for the introduction of the system if workers would agree to the adoption of piecework or payment by results, to which the union leaders claimed they were opposed. Payments by results would increase the standard of living of workers and decrease the general cost of living by increasing production. From his experience in seven countries he had no hesitation in saying that once the workers tested the fruits of payment by results they would never give the system up. He said it would be difficult to conceive that a man would not earn more on piecework than the basic wage. He contended employees were apt to look to the Government for too much. There were many opportunities in industry for the worker to better his position, but if he knew the Government would look after his dependants if ho was not earning sufficient, there would be a tendency for ambition to be stifled.