LABOUR CONTROL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 16 October 1942, Page 5

LABOUR CONTROL

ESSENTIAL TRADES REGULATIONS ISSUED OFFICIAL EXPLANATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. The requirements made by the industrial man-power regulations, 1942, which replace the regulations on the same subject, were explained in a statement issued by the Minister of Industrial Man-Power, the Hon. A. McLagan. yesterday. The Minister said there was nothing in the new regulations that would unduly affect the good worker or the good, employer. Any employer or worker in essential industry or undertaking may not terminate his employment without the written permission of the district manpower officer, says the statement. In cases of serious misconduct, the employer may suspend a worker and the man-power officer will decide if the worker is to be dismissed. There is provision for appeal against the officers’ decision. A worker may be transferred to other work if the work on which he is engaged is abolished, but he has the right of appeal against any permanent transfer. A temporary transfer may be made by an employer, but this must not exceed one month. Man-power officers may order reductions from wages for deliberate absenteeism.

Important obligations are imposed on all employers. It is an offence to engage a worker who has left an essential undertaking. An employer is responsible for seeing that a worker registered if he is in a class required to register for essential works. For the purpose of the regulations any person may be required to submit to a medical examination and manpower officers are given power to enter premises, interview persons and inspect!books. Every person engaged in an essential industry is deemed to be a member of any industrial union to which it is necessary for him to belong in respect of his employment. If necessary, the man-power officer may require union fees to be deducted from wages. . . .