DOMINION AWARDS
A CUMBERSOME PROCEDURE. Suggestions for amendments in the Industrial Conciliation and 'Arbitration Act were made to the Prime Minister on Saturday by a deputation representing Labour unions, the members of winch were Messrs. _ John Rigg, M. Laracy, and D. Moriarty. Their complaint concerned the obligation put upon_ applicant unions of citing every individual employer to be bound by the provisions of an award. They suggested that in cases where it was tho desire of tho union to cite all employers ' in an industry, an advertisement in tho local newspapers should suffice.
Mr. Laraoy pointed out that in proceedings pending for the making of an award to govern the employment of shearers, ho would be required to cite about 27,000 employers. It was urged also that when representative assessors fro mall parts of the Dominion met and agreed before a Conciliation Commissioner upon the terms of an award,_ it should not bo necessary after having done this to go. through tho form of citing employers before sittings of the Court all over tb.o country. Mr. Moriarty said that representative employers and workers had lately met beforo Mr. Hally and agreed upon a Dominion scale of wages and iiours, and yet it would bo necessary to go through tho process of citing every employer before the Court, and having several awards made in the various districts, which awards would be absolutely uniform, and would be agreed upon as a matter of course. _ This involved unions and the country in needless expense. They asked that the procedure tor the filing of a Dominion agreement should bo simplified. , Mr. Massey said that legislation would bo required to give effect to the request of the deputation, and unfortunately a lot of very important legislation, arising out of the waT, .would have to be dealt with by Parliament this session. He would ask the Secretary for Labour to draft a Bhort Bill to .give effect to ■the .suggestions made. This Bill could be thrashed out by the Labour Bills Committee, and at the end of the session he would ask Parliament to agree to it. . .'
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2529, 2 August 1915, Page 6
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351DOMINION AWARDS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2529, 2 August 1915, Page 6
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