SOCIAL SECURITY TAX

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23326, 20 April 1939, Page 10

SOCIAL SECURITY TAX

domestic workers DEMAND ON EMPLOYERS REQUIREMENTS UNDER ACT Many domestic workers .ire demanding that employers should not make deductions from their wages to cover social security contributions, but should bear the cost of these themselves. Some employers admit that they have yielded to such demands or have paid the contributions without deductions on their own initiative in the case of women hired to do washing and such » ork for a few hours onlv. in the v-i'ck. It is pointed out that citplovers who are adopting such a course ... ttrc not complying with their legal obligations. When they pay a contribution without deduction, tliev automatically increase the amount of wages or the equivalent which might thus be subject to a further charge. \ There has been quite a run in the shops for wages books as a result of the social security obligations on employers of domestics. The Act requires that an employer should affix the social security stamps in a wages book that is open to inspection. It is stated that the only requirement under the legislation is that the wages book should correctlv set out the position and that the social security stamps contained should represent the required deductions from wages as the contributions of the worker. <