“PECUNIARY GAIN” CLAUSE

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11786, 24 March 1924, Page 9

“PECUNIARY GAIN” CLAUSE

IN 1.0. AND A. ACT. LABOUR PARTY DESIRES , AMENDMENT. Steps are to be taken hy the New Zealand Labour Party, in aooordanoe with a decision arrived at by the resident executive on the recommendation of the Otago Labour Representation Committee, to have the clause dealing with pecuniary gain deleted from the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The executive also approved a recommendation that the opinions of the Trades Council’s Federation and of the Alliance of Labour should be secured in connection with general improvements to the I.C. ana A. Art.

The portion of the Act referred to is section 71 of the first amendment to the Act, made in 1908. It provides that “no award or industrial agreement made after the commencement of this Act shall affect the employment of any worker who is employed otherwise than for the direct or indirect pecuniary gain of the employer; provided that this section shall not be deemed to exempt any local authority or body corporate from the operation of any award or industrial agreement.” It is understood that the principal objection against the clause is that it restricts the gaining of awards hy ■unions of workers such as domestic servants and others whose employers receive service but neither direct nor indirect pecuniary gain as a result of the work performed.