LABOUR LAWS.
SPECIAL COURT SITTINGS.
HEARING OF. APPLICATIONS FOR AMENDMENTS. DUNEDIN, May 28. It is understood that upon measures relating to the Factories Act and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act recently before the legislature becoming law, the Court of Arbitration proposes to hold a special sitting in Wellington to consider applications by occupiers of factories for an extension of the hours fixed by the Factories Amendment Act. In conjunction with such applications, it is stated, the Court proposes also to hear applications under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Aet for the amendment of existing awards and industrial agreements by reducing the number of working hours to those enumerated in the Statute. The special sitting of the Court is expected to be commenced in Wellington on Monday, June 22. The question of fixing a basic wage under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Aet will, it is understood, be dealt .With at a special sitting of the Court in Wellington at a later date. —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 29 May 1936, Page 5
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