COURT GRANTS 5 PER CENT RISE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21189, 12 August 1940, Page 9

COURT GRANTS 5 PER CENT RISE

GENERAL ORDER FOLLOWS APPLICATION EMPLOYERS’ REPRESENTATIVE RECORDS DISSENT An increase of 5 per cent in rates of wages under all awards, industrial agreements and apprenticeship orders is made under a general order of the Court of Arbitration, in exercise of powers conferred on it by the Rates of Wages Emergency Regulations, 1940. The order covers time and piece wages, overtime and other special remuneration. The order is made as the result of the test application made by the New Zealand Federated Painters and Decorators’ Industrial Association of Workers. The hearing extended from July 12 to 22. Mr A. L. Monteith, workers’ representative, records his opinion that the increase should be per cent. Mr W. Cecil Prime, employers’ representative, records his dissent from the finding, on the ground that in his view no general increase in rates of remuneration is justified at the present time. At the hearing the late Mr J. Robinson, of Dunedin, appeared for the applicant and Mr D. I. Macdonald, of Christchurch, opposed the application on behalf of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation and other related bodies.