UNEMPLOYMENT ALLEVIATION.
A QUESTION FOR EMPLOYERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, July 9. Judgment in an application for an order amending the united furniture trades award, by fixing hours of work on a graduated scale to lessen unemployment by reducing hours, was delivered in the Arbitration Court by Mr. Judge Frazer. The judgment stated that the application had much to commend it, but the matter could only be arranged by individual employers with their employees. The position was complicated by the fact that slackness of business was not experienced in the same degree in all branches of a trade or by all firms engaged in an industry. Difficulties also would arise in respect to transfers of city end country workers under such a scheme if the amendment were to apply to a whole district. His Honor gave the secretary of the union every credit for the time and thought given to the formulation of a scheme, and recognised with appreciation the spirit of self-sacri-fice that actuated members of the union in making the application. The court commended to employers fcr their careful consideration the desirability of relieving the situation disclosed by the adoption of a readjustmeet of hours where possible
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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199UNEMPLOYMENT ALLEVIATION. Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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