NEW LEGISLATION
APPLICATIONS TO COI7KT
SPECIAL SITTINGS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, May 28.
It is understood that upon the measures relating to the Factories Act and the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act recently before the Legislature becoming law, the Court of Arbitration proposes to hold a special sittingr at Wellington to consider applications by occupiers of factories for an extension of the hours fixed by the Factories Act. In conjunction with such applications it is stated the Court proposes also to hear applications under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act for the amendment of existing awards and industrial agreements by reducing the number of working hours to those ! enumerated in the Statute. The special sitting of the Court is.expected to be commenced at Wellington on Monday, June 22.
The question of fixing a basic wage under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act will, it is understood, be dealt with at a special sitting of the Court at Wellington at a later date. \
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Evening Post, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 11
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