ANOMALIES IN AWARDS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 7

ANOMALIES IN AWARDS.

DIBCUSSED BY COURT. REMEDIAL ACTION PROMISED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. (Reverting to the principle which operated before 1931, the Arbitration Court will take every opportunity of making pronouncements on standard rates of wages for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labour. An announcement to this effect was made by Mr. Justice O'Regan at the end of a court hearing in Christchurch to-day, at which Mr. D. I. Macdonald, secretary of the Canterbury Employers’ Association, referred to a number of anomalies under existing conditions. “ The court has had In mind for some time the difficulties confronting the parties to disputes, owing to the varying rates of wages which have come fnlo operation,” stated Mr. Justice O’Regan. “ For this reason, and beoause of the desirability of adopting a general principle, such as was in operation before 1931, the court proposes to take an early opportunity of making a pronouncement on the question. “ It does not appear practicable to deal with the matter at the present stage, as no doubt the parties concerned will desire an opportunity of placing their views before the court. Accordingly, the court proposes, early In Its next sitting In Auckland, to select what appear to be representative dispute and to give the parties an opportunity of dealing with such cases with a view to enabling the court to make a pronouncement on the general question of standard rates of wages for various olasses of labour, skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled.”