WAGES INCREASE
POSITION CLARIFIED » . Any employee who had been in receipt of five per cent. or more than the award rate of wages was not entitled to be paid the recent five per cent. increase, it was stated by Mr. J. P. Hughson, Mayor of Waitara, at the meeting of the borough council last night. He had received notification to that effect from the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Labour, to whom he had written pointing out that if all employees were to be granted that increase irrespective of wages their employrs were paying them, there would be no incentive for employers to pay anyone above the award wages. Definitely the position was that employees' wages must be increased to provide that they received a five per cent. increase over the award rate" so that if an employee had been receiving say three per cent. above the award rate, he was only entitled to an additional two per cent. to bring his wages up to the five per cent increase given under the general order.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1940, Page 6
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