NURSES AND LEVY
DEDUCTION FROM PAY.
BOARD ENTERS PROTEST.
Palmerston N., Aug. 18,
A protest against the action of the Government in expecting payment of the emergency unemployment levy from nurses in receipt of a salary of £6O a year and under was voiced at yesterday’s meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board.
Mr. A. E. Hansford said that domestic servants were exempt, and he saw no reason why the lower-paid nurses should not be relieved of the levy. On the advice of the secretary of th© Hospital Boards’ Association that the emergency- unemployment tax of 3d in the £1 was to be deducted from the total remuneration for an employee’s services, including valuation of free board and lodgings, Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., moved a resolution of protest against what he considered an imposition.
It was decided to forward the resolution to the Government.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1931, Page 13
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