WORKERS DISMISSED.
■ ■ LARGE SYDNEY STORES. RATIONING FORBIDDEN. (Received January 2. 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY. Jan. 2. A large number of employees, chiefly shop assistants, began the New \ ear badly to-day, in consequence of the Government's ban on rationing.
The large city stores served dismissal notices on 20 to 25 per cent, of their employees. The notices will take effect on Monday. The majority of the employers say they can run their businesses more economically with small full-time staffs than with large part-time staffs. The employees in most of the large departmental stores have fallen into a state of panic, and blame their unions, while the unions now express their unprcparedness to meet the employers to discuss how a restricted form of rationing might be applied. The employers in turn say they have already warned both the unions and the Government, and the next move must come from those responsible for the present trouble.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 9
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152WORKERS DISMISSED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 9
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