DISCIPLINE IN UNEMPLOYMENT
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I should like to let the public know of the abuses of power by the Unemployment Committee and of the effect of them on the citizens. From time to time petty disputes ariseon the different jobs and men are dismissed, usually one at a time. The dismissed man goes to the secretary of the Unemployment Committee and finds .that Ibis official has no power to send him to work anywhere. The man is forced to idle about for perhaps a week till the committee sits on Friday morning. Till then no one in the Town Hall or the Labour Bureau can set him to work. The result is that when the committee sits and the man is found to be innocent of any offence he has already lost a week’s pay. Should the man be found guilty of some small breach of discipline he is suspended for two weeks and has no right to appear and give dvidence.
I should like to know if those unpaid wages in all these cases are returned to Wellington. In any case the men dismissed are unable to pay gas and light and rent or rates while idle and the Town Hall loses the money.—l am, etc., Roslyn, December 16. E. G. M.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21831, 19 December 1932, Page 10
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