DISQUALIFIED BY SEX?

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1923, Page 3

DISQUALIFIED BY SEX?

i.iT Al. PAY BOR EL'l'A'.. WORK advocated. WELUNGTOX. May HO 1 , ; ir 11 •; 1 tlmi there i - some m--~,.e in 1 the' Post ami Telegraph Department ''respecting pavmeut of wo- ' , ..... I undo. the heading ■'in- oueldied b;, Sex" in the ’’ Kat ipnf ’ Hi o .diieial organ ol ilm I . and 1 . Officer..' A'-eeiatioll i the fnibonug appears : - - .-I, a,... section i:e- a grievance "tore li;;::, anv oil er over 1 lie contents of lb,. year's eia-i'ma t hut h'l. " H l|e women employed by the ,l,,pa!t-nti-nt. tor n <hfinite P-dicy of en.Gon on account of w>: won,- to .v e In-tl adopted 111 llteir ease, te;-,-.inly the -alary linin',s at v.ltlch tilerenients are d.uc and have been vnthj u .i,| a,.,, 100 numerous to be accounted

for in anv oll'.et " , , |.... been aliened liotn i ncivmeiit - l.m , 1(l t be e-jo.-, marks, lull both above, below and on those -alary points thev have been -topped. That |be inti o ltte: ion of a policy of e!u-.-i----,lltit ni ■ v is mifsiir hcnuoii «!'■' n* > * . g, ~s Without saying, but il '- al-n illegal, for the timory of the U'.-t ami Telegraph Act of Pd'- under which we are working, ba-e- the classification on the value of the 'vork pmformed. If the department can -bow that the concerned have reached the limit- oi their powers and effii j.otev the v omen have no ca-e. Bui eait this he shown? We doubt it. and t uerio ore -troiiglv urg - these officers lodge appeals, and let the Appeal Board -in the evidence that he brought to heal- Oil their cit e-. .1 lu'.V have the clearest legal rigid to api ] ib’,- t. ■i, -a -u , *'t an tiai peal, amt h" ' |I,IU 11 grievance. The association’s point oi view i- vx-ore-sed ill tile following resolution --ed at a recent meeting of the cxeeuti'.,."This executive committee entor- a strong objection to the treatment accorded the female -tail's of the department itt the whittling down <>! the salaries attached to senior and responsible positions held by them, and b v the almost universal steppage of the scale increase- to the women classified in the clerical division. It a-utin register- tHo opinion that the principle of equal pay for equal work regardless ~f -ex should ho adopted hy the department." T pNDON. -Iline 1.