OTAGO EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12710, 1 December 1909, Page 3

OTAGO EMPLOYERS ' ASSOCIATION.

[United Phess Association.] Dunetiin, Nov. 30. At a meeting of the Otago Employers' Association to-day, a resolution to the following effect was carried :— "That this Association strongly protests against the action of the Government in continually overriding the decisions of the Arbitration Court, and looks upon its action in connection with the proposed Shops and Offices Bill as an unwarranted interference with the Arbitration Court. In this instance tho Court has sat in every part of the Dominion, and heard evidence in respect to hours, wages, and conditions of the work in connection with hotel employees, and in many instances it has increased the wages and shortened the hours. The Government now without 'evidence, proposes to reduce the hours still further and at the same rate of pay as fixed by Arbitration Court, thus upsetting the whole basis of the award. This meeting pledges itself to stand by the New Zealand Employers' Federation in any stand ii may sec fit to take up in domanttinß that the decisions of the Court shall be respected by the Legislature."