BASIC WAGE RATE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 310, 16 December 1936, Page 5

BASIC WAGE RATE

Labour Department Issues Warning The Labour Department has asked for the publication of the following; The attention of employers is drawn to the effect of the Arbitration Court’s basic wage order In the case of workers covered by awards or industrial agreements where the minimum weekly wage prescribed by the award for adult workers is less thrift £3 16s and £1 16s a week as fixed by order of the Court. Section 3 of the industrial and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1936, provides. ‘-While any general order fixing a basic rate of wages remains in force, no adult male or female worker, the conditions of whose employment are fixed by any award or industrial agreement, shall receive less than the basic rate of wages for maje or female workers, as t'he case may be, anything to the contrary in any such award or’ industrial agreement notwithstanding.” A case in point is the tearoom and restaurant employees’ award, where the weekly wage for certain classes of adult workers is less than the basic wage.