NEW SOUTH WALES ECONOMY
PUBLIC SERVICE SALARY CUTS.
DISMISSALS THE ALTERNATIVE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrlffht.
Sydney, May 2. The main proposals submitted to the State Parliament by Cabinet are a tax of 3d. in the pound on all wages and incomes, without exemptions-, to provide an unemployment fund of £3,000,000 annually, a reduction in public servants’ salaries of from .6 to LU per cent., two weeks off annually without pay, and Saturday morning work, equivalent in all to I'o per cent, reduction, or as an alternative, retrenchments in the service and the amendment of the .Industrial Arbitration Act to empower the Industrial Commission to extend the working hours to 48 without additional pay, or to retain the 44-hour week with a reduction in salary, equivalent to four hours.
If the public service scheme is not accepted by Parliament 3000 employees will be dismissed, with more to follow. Although the officials cf the Australian Railways Union rejected the proposal of Mr. Cleary, Chief Railway Commissioner, for rationing work, a ballot of union members resulted in favour of the scheme by an overwhelming majority.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1930, Page 10
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