DISPUTES IN INDUSTRY
BAVIN PRESENTS NEW SCHEME THREE COMMISSIONERS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 9.32 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. In the Assembly, the Government Introduced an Industrial Amendment Bill, which provides for the appointment of three commissioners instead of only one, as at present, and that questions at the sittings be decided by a majority vote, members of the commission to have the same status as Supreme Court judges. The powers of the commission in relation to the granting of preference are to be restricted. The commission will not be allowed to go beyond the declaration that, in giving employment, preference shall be given to unionists other things being equal. It will not be possible to direct an employee to join a union in order to obtain employment, or to lay down that the engagement of labour shall only be made at a union office. Provisions in the current awards overriding these provisions are nullified. The Premier, Mr. T. R. Bavin, said that at the end of Mr. A. B. Piddington’s present contract as Industrial Commissioner, he would be put on the same footing as the other members of the commission. The Bill simply meant transferring from the shoulders of a single individual power with which no single individual should be burdened.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 216, 1 December 1927, Page 11
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