NEW REGULATIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 16 October 1942, Page 5

NEW REGULATIONS

ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY MANPOWER EXPLANATION BY MINISTER Wellington, This Day. Requirements made by the Industrial Manpower Industrial Regulations. 1942, which replace regulations on the same subject, were explained in a statement issued by the Minister of Industrial Manpower, Mr McLagan. last night. The Minister s\id there was nothing in the new regulations that would unduly affect the good worker or the good employer. Any employer or worker in an essential industry or undertaking may not terminate employment without written permission of the district rpanpower officer, says the statement. In cases of serious misconduct an employer may suspend a worker and the manpower officer will decide if the worker is to be dismissed. There is provision for appeal against the officer’s decision. A worker may be transferred to other work if the work he is engaged on is abolished, but he has a right of appeal against any permanent transfer. A temporary transfer j may be made by an employer, but this must not exceed one month. Manpower officers may order deductions from wages for deliberate absenteeism. Obligations are imposed on all employers. It is an offence to engage a worker who lias left an essential undertaking. The employer is respon-

sible for seeing that a worker is regis- ' tercJ if he is in the class required to register for essential works. For the purpose of the regulations, any person may be required to submit to 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 I which it is necessary for him to belong in respect of his employment. If necessary the manpower officer may require union fees to be deducted from I wages.—P.A.