£1 A Week May Cost Country £30,000,000 A Year
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WELLINGTON, March 15. . An estimate of the increase in the nation 's wage bill that would result if the £1 a week increase which the Federation of Labour sought were applied to each of an estimated 400,000 adult fnale workers, with 10s weekly for each of 175,000 female. and junior workers, was given by Mr. K. M. Baxter at the end of- his submissiocns for the Federation in'the Court of Arbitration today. The total increase would, he said, be £25,800,000. It had been alleged that it would cost £30,000,000, he adcUni. Mr. Justice Tyndall, who presided, reminded Mr. Baxter that increases prescribed in a wage pronouncement as opposed to a general order did not automatically apply to the actual . wages being received by every worker, but were only put into effect through an amendment of awards. The figure Mr. Baxter had quoted was based on the assumption that no overtime was worked in 'New Zealand, added his Honour, though there were numerous factors that would operate the other way.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 March 1949, Page 7
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