THE LABOUR MARKET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 20

THE LABOUR MARKET.

EMPLOYMENT OF MARRIED WOMEN. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 8. In view of the unsatisfactory state of the labour market, not only in Auckland, but throughout the Dominion, united efforts are to be made to have an investigation into the circumstances of married women occupying city positions while their husbands are also earning good salaries. Appeals have been directed to the Auckland Employers’ Association by the Auckland women’s branch of the New Zealand Labour Party and the Auckland Unemployment Committee. At a meeting of the former organisation yesterday members of the executive attributed the encroachment of married women on the employment market to selfishness resultant from the effects of the war and to women continuing to hold men’s positions following the cessation of hostilities. It was complained trat while some factory girls were on the border of starvation married women had occupied a position for 10 and 12 years, when the need for them doing s odid_ not exist, A. resolution was passed affirming the principle of writing to the Employers’ Association drawing its attention to. the situation and asking that an investigation be made into the circumstances of married women applicants for positions and of those already holding positions. . will wait upon the association, and it is intended to bring pressure to have the whole question threshed out.