SYDNEY WORKERS LOSE THEIR JOBS.
FIRMS DISMISS LARGE PROPORTION OF STAFFS. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, January 2. A large number of employees, chiefly shop assistants, began the New Year badly to-day in consequence of the Government’s ban on rationing. The big city stores served dismissal notices on 20 to 25 per cent of their employees. The notices will take effect on Monday. A majority of the employers say that they can run their businesses more economically with small full-time staffs than with large part-time staffs. The employees in most of the large departmental stores, have fallen into a state of panic and blame their unions, while the unions now express their preparedness to meet employers on the subject as to how a restricted form of rationing might be applied. The employers, in turn, say that they have already warned both the unions and the State Government that the next move must come from those responsible for the present trouble.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 1
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