EQUAL PAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1940, Page 5

EQUAL PAY

FOR WOMEN DOING MEN'S WORK. INDUSTRIAL COURT DECISION IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) RUGBY. April 29. The claim to equal pay for equal work, for women going to occupations usually reserved to men. has won its first success in a decision of the Industrial Court on the wages of women employed by local authorities as war time omnibus and tramcar conductors, says "The Times." The principle embodied in the decision cannot inferentially be transferred to other occupations for two reasons, that the Court's decision will have a specific not a general application. and that women's war work in industry may not so closely correspond to men’s work in the road passenger service. Moreover, the decision has an application to war time dilution, and is not related to normal times’ circumstances. Nevertheless it may point much farther than it reaches.