INDUSTRIAL AWARDS
MANY INVALIDATED RESULT OP APPEAL COURT DECISION. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 20. The opinion that, in consequence of a recent judgment of the Appeal Court, many industrial awards are invalid was expressed in the Arbitration Court today. In opposing certain applications by two clothing trade unions, the agent for the employers, Mr Wright, said that one clause provided that piecework was not allowed. That was a contradiction to section 11 of the Amendment Act of 1932. Mr Wright made a similar submission regarding several other clauses. Miss Cossey and Mr Moxom said that Mr Wright had sprung a surprise. Clauses similar to those now challenged had been customary in awards for years. If the decision of the Appeal Court was correct, agreements were, not worth the paper they were written on. Mr Justice Frazer said the Appeal Court decision applied retrospectively. Mr Moxom said the clause giving union secretaries the right of entry to workers had been agreed to for years. It came as a surprise that such a clause in the award now invalidated the whole award. It meant that there would hardly be an award in existence in the Dominion,
His Honor said he would not like to say how many awards would be affected.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 15
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