First Catch Your Labour

Southland Times, Issue 13284, 9 August 1895, Page 2

First Catch Your Labour

(By Telegraph.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, Aug. 8. The Minister of Labour’s Industrial Con ciliation and Arbitration Act Amendment Bill provides, inter alia,, that the minimum number of which a society must consist in order to be registered as an industrial union of employers is five; where a co-partnership firm is a member of any such society each individual partner residing in New Zealand shall be deemed an individual. When such society is registered as a union and incorporated or a registered company may be registered as an industrial union or any incorporated or registered company may be registered as an industrial union of employers. Whenever an industrial dispute involving technical questions is referred to a board or the court for settlement two experts may be nominated, one by each party to the dispute, and such experts shall sit as assessors with and be deemed to be members of the board or court for the purpose of such dispute. If there are more than two parties to any such dispute one assessor shall ba nominated by the parties whose interests arc with the employers and the oth:r by the parties whose interests are with the workmen. Where an industrial dispute relates to employment or wages the jurisdiction of the board or court to deal therewith shall not be voided or affected by the fact thll the relationship of employer and employed has ceased to exist, unless it so ceased at least three "months before the industrial dispute was first referred to the Lend or court aq the case may be.