LABOR LAWS.
PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night. At the Arbitration Court to-day a new award for carpenters and joiners, drafted hi accordance with an agreement between employers and employees, was submitted (for tho Court’s approval. Tho principal difference between this draft award and the old award related to piece work and what is known as tho “ labor only ” system. This is a system occasionally adopted by builders. They let a contract for the labor required in the erection of a building supplying the material themselves. The ' union objects to this, because it is piecework, and employers object to it, because tho contract may be let to carpenters who undercut prices. The President of the Court did not think that the Court had jurisdiction in such cases, which were really co-operative contracts in which the relation of employer and employee did not exist. After argument it was decided to accept the clause, providing that except in respect to stair building no carpenter or joiner shall be paid by piecework, nor shall any builder let his work «labor
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1931, 13 November 1906, Page 2
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