COURT UNDER FIRE
AWARD FOR STOREMEN WELLINGTON PROTEST (Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Dissatisfaction with the terms of the award and with the constitution of the Arbitration Court was expressed at a meeting yesterday of workers engaged in the wool, hide, and grain stores. The fact that Saturday morning work is to be paid at ordinary time rates was severely criticised and the opinion was expressed that court, in providing, ordinary rates, violated the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act and the Factories Act, which stated that all time worked over 40 hours shall be paid for at time and a half, and, where, practicable, Saturday morning work shall be eliminated.
In joining with unions in other districts in condemning the decision of the court to reduce permanent hands wages by Is 6d. a week, the meeting placed on record its opinion that there had be a violation of the Labour Government's pledge that where there was a 40-hour week existing wages would not be reduced.
Exception was also taken to retrospective wages being paid from January 1 only, and not December 23.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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