PIECEWORK WILL COME
EMPLOYERS’ VIEWS NO GROUNDS FOR FEAR “Piecework has, we know, been abused in the past, but under proper safeguards it is preferable to a flat rate of wages,” said Mr. S. E. Wright, secretary to the Employers’ Association, referring to the amendment of the Arbitration Act. The tailoring trade, continued Mr. Wright, worked under a piecework system and would not hear of an alteration. It was bound to come eventually in other trades. After all, the increase in production cheapened the selling price to consumers and there was no basis for the fear that increased productions would react against the workers. The opposition to piecework was chiefly based on the fear of what might happen if the rates were cut and wag u s came down, but under proper safeguards that would not happen. Under the flat rate the more efficient had to carry the less efficient worker, said Mr. Wright. He realised, however, that industry had to carry both the fast and the slow worker.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 16
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169PIECEWORK WILL COME Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 16
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