INDUSTRIAL MAN-POWER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25208, 24 April 1943, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL MAN-POWER

REGULATIONS AMENDED (PA) ‘ WELLINGTON, Apl. 22. With the object mainly of introducing greater flexibility, a number of amendments to the Industrial Manpower Emergency Regulations has been gazetted, and an outline of these has been given in a statement by the Minister of Industrial Man-power (Mr A. McLagan). The amendments clarify a number of points in respect of transfers of employment, and provide for cases in which special circumstances arise. Any workers in essential undertakings whose normal weekly hours are 30 or more are now brought .under any declaration affecting their work in the undertaking. The powers formerly vested in controllers to prescribe the additional hours that must be worked are now, in cases of emergency, extended to man-power officers, but no such order will be valid for more than three days. Employers in essential undertakings are, moreover, now required to make work available during the whole of the ordinary working hours in each week unless there arc causes of stoppage bevond their own control. it is also now made clear that a person released from the armed forces under direction to work other than his pre-army work preserves his right to occupational re-establishment throughout the period of direction. The penalties or dues to which a worker is liable under the regulations may in future be deducted from the wages payable to him by any employer.