SHOPS IN NEW ZEALAND
AWARD WAGES PAID STATEMENT FOR EMPLOYERS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day, Interviewed with reference to the statement made in Parliament that 95 per cent, of tire shops in New Zealand to-day were not paying award rates, Mr. T. O. Bishop, secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Drapers, Clothiers and__Bo.pt Retailers, said that the statement evidently had been made under some misunderstanding and had given considerably concern to members of bis organisation. iso far from tho statement being true that 95 per cent, were not paying award rates, almost the reverse was the case, so far as his organisation was concerned. Junior shop assistants were paid award rates in most cases. Where they were not paid award rates they were paid in excess of the award rates. _ Borne linns •paid the*whole of their assistants, lioth junior and senior, in excess of the award rates. Iu regard to trade as a whole throughout New Zealand, it was a iact that a large proportion of senior assistants were paid in excess of tho award rates. This had always been the practice of the trade, and in spite, of the difficult trading conditions existing at present it was still tho trade practice.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 15
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