MAINTENANCE OF CHILDREN BILL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 35, 5 November 1919, Page 7

MAINTENANCE OF CHILDREN BILL

0 OBJECTIONS OF EMPLOYERS. (Rec. November 1, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, November -1. At a meeting of associated trades, representing eleven large employers' associations, it was resolved that it would be far preferable to accept the Board of Trade's living wage of ill 17s.' than to attempt to put the Maintenance of Children Bill now b;fore Parliament into operation—Press Assn.

[Under the Maintenance of Children Bill a "Children of Employees' Fund" is created, and if and wbenover Hip amount paid into the fund by employers is insufficient the. Treasurer shall' ;havo authority to nay into the fund from the, consolidated" revenue a sum equal to the deficiency. The Board of Trade shall, upon a yearly report supplied by the Government Statistician, ascoHuin (a) fho total annual cost of maintenance of. all children of ma!; employees and female employees respectively, at the rate determined upon by the board for the niaialenaney of a single child in the household; lb)" the' cost at the same rate of the maintenance of all children per head of nnie employr;s: (c) the cost at 'the same rale per head of female employees of the maintenanr.- of all children of female employees who are not also children of male'employers. The amount of tlv monthly cost of maintenance per male employee of all children, and of the monlhlv cost of maintenance re female employee of r.ll children of fenmb employees wlio are not also, children of male employees, shall l.v fixed by proclamation in the "Government Gazette" within fourteen days after receipt by the Minister of ii'o statement from tho board. Such mwilbly cost shall in each case be ascertained by dividin? into twelve coual parts the respective ffinual costs c» fixed in clauses (b) and .(c) preceding.]