INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1927, Page 12

INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

N.S.W. PROPOSES AMENDMENT. By Telegraph—Frees Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, Dec. 1 In the Assembly the Government Introduced the Industrial Amendment Bill, which provides for the appointment of three Commissioners, instead of only one as at present, and questions at the sittings are to be decided by a majority vote, members of the commission to have the same status as Supreme Court judges The powers of the commission in relation to the granting of preference are to be restricted. The commission will pot be allowed to go beyond a declaration that, in giving employment, preference shall be given to unionists, other things being equal. It will not be possible to direct an employee to join a uuion in order to obtain employment, or to lay down that the engagement of labour shall only- be made at a union office. The provisions in current awards overriding these provision are nullified. Speaking on the Industrial Arbitration Amendment Bill, Mr. Bavin said that Mr. Piddingtoii’s present contract would be ended and he would be put on the same footing as other members of the commission. The Bill simply meant transferring from the shoulders of a single individual a power with which no single individual should be burdened.