LOWER WAGES
SOUGHT BY EMPLOYERS.
ARBITRATION COURT DECLINES.
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- “It * ddes not seem reasonable at a time when • the. economic outlook-; is more favourable to make wage reductions that'will operate for at least five years,’’- states the- - judgment of—'the Arbitration , Court,. on an application by employers in North Canterbury for a reduction: :on all rates of pay to apprentices to carpentry and joinery trades.
The Court refused the application, stating-that the standard of rate s had already been reduced by ten per cent, under the general order of May, 1931. It could not be said that the present rates, which commence at 13/6 a week, were too high.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1933, Page 6
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