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Cases for Enforcement of Miscellaneous Provisions of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.

The following is an analysis showing nature of cases taken under the Act for year ending 31st March, 1912 :— Nature of Offence. Number of Cases taken. Failing to pay award rate (minimum wage) ... ... ... ... 133 Accepting less than award rate (minimum wage) ... ... ... 43 Failing to pay overtime rates ... ... ... ... ... 33 Accepting less than overtime rates ... ... ... ... ... 25 Failing to give preference to unionists ... ... ... ... 38 Failing to indenture apprentices ... ... ... ... ... 7 Employing more apprentices than allowed by award in proportion to journeymen ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 15 Failing to pay wages at weekly or fortnightly intervals ... ... 20 Deducting from wages and failing to pay wages in full ... ... 6 Aiding and abetting and taking part in a strike ... ... ... 2 Failing to keep wages and overtime book ... ... ... ... 89 Failing to exhibit copies of awards... ... ... ... ... 6 Having bespoke work done on other than own premises (tailoring trade) ... 2 For miscellaneous breaches of awards (by employers) ... ... ... 108 For miscellaneous breaches of awards (by workers ... ... ... 51 Grand total ... ... ... .. ... ... 578 Total number of cases against employers ... ... ... ... 457 Total number of cases against employees ... ... ... ... 121 Inspectors of Awards have also had a considerable amount of work to do in the collection of penalties imposed by the Courts, having collected a sum of £726 4s. 6d. from employers and £80 16s. from employees. The following table gives a complete analysis of the collection of these penalties :— Return showing Total Cases and Penalties paid and owing by Employers as at 31st March, 1912 (from inception of Act). Total number of cases in which penalties inflicted, 2,281. £ s Percentage. Total amount of penalties ... ... ... 5,963 15 6 Total amount paid to date ... ... ... 5,638 4 2 94| Total amount outstanding ... ... ... 325 11 4 5| Of the amount unpaid, £141 18s. lOd. is owing by employers who have gone out of business, and whose whereabouts are at present unknown; several are reported to have left the Dominion. £41 19s. is owing by employers who have promised to pay off their fines by instalments; £68 15s. by employers against whom warrants of distress have been issued, but who have " no effects " (several of these are bankrupt, and are now working for wages and are paying in small instalments); £47 17s. 6d. by employers who, through illness, ifcc, are in very poor circumstances, and

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Industrial District. j Successful. Unsuccessful. Total. Penalties. l Northern Wellington Marlborough Canterbury Otago and Southland 70 12* 1 10 4 70 12 1 10 4 £ s. d. 173 0 0 217 11 0 1 0 0 8 15 0 4 10 0 Grand totals 97 97 404 16 0 * This total includes two cas js taken against industrial unkn of £100 was infloted in each instance. In one of tha cases an t failing to keep a wages and overtime book, but the total also inch in factories, &c, and for wilfully making false entries in wages an ns of workers for aiding ar appeal is pending. The o1 udes a few cases for failing id overtime book. td abetting sti ;her cases we: to exhibit coi •ikes. A fine ■e mostly for lies of awards