WORKING CONDITIONS
EFFECT OF NEW ACT THE ‘BLANKETING’ CLAUSE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A statement to the effect that the Shops and Offices Amendment Bill and the Factories Amendment., Bill apply only to those workers directly covered by those measures , was made by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T Armstrong. It was pointed out to Mr. Armstrong that there had been a good deal of misunderstanding as to the meaning of the clause in both bills stipulating that all awards and industrial agreements under the Industrial Conciliation .and Arbitration Act, 1925, should be read subject to the provisions of the bill concerned, and because of that clause all. awards and industrial agreements now in existence would be affected, whether workers were factory workers or workers in shops and offices, or any other industry.
The Minister made it clear that the “blanketing” clause applied only to those awards covering workers also covered by those two Acts, and could not apply to workers not employed in factories or shops and offices.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 4
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173WORKING CONDITIONS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 4
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