Arbitration and Wage-fixing in Australia ...

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National Industrial Conference Board, 1913 - Arbitration and award - 52 pages
 

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Page 48 - Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State.
Page 33 - ... according to equity, good conscience and the substa,ntial merits of the case, without regard to technicalities and legal forms.
Page 48 - ... includes all matters pertaining to the relations of employers and employees, and the employment, preferential employment, dismissal, or non-employment of any particular persons, or of persons of any particular sex or age, or being or not being members of any organization, association, or body...
Page 35 - If a man cannot maintain his enterprise without cutting down the wages which are proper to be paid to his employees — at all events, the wages which are essential for their living — it would be better that he should abandon the enterprise.
Page 50 - Whenever, in the opinion of the Court, it is necessary, for the prevention or settlement of the industrial dispute, or for the maintenance of industrial peace, or for the welfare of society, to direct that preference shall be given to members of organizations as in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of this section provided, the Court shall so direct.
Page 48 - ... all questions of what is fair and right In relation to any industrial matter having regard to the interests of the persons immediately concerned and of society as a whole.
Page 8 - ... and if of opinion that it has had, or may have, such effect, the Court shall make such alterations as, in its opinion, may be necessary to remove or prevent such effect, and at the same time to secure a living wage to the employes in such trade or industry who are affected by such determination.
Page 48 - Industrial dispute' means an industrial dispute extending beyond the limits of any one State and includes: (1) Any dispute as to industrial matters, and (2) any dispute in relation to employment in an industry carried on by or under the control of the Commonwealth or a State...
Page 34 - Act provides that the basic wage paid to an adult male employee shall not be less than is "sufficient to maintain a well-conducted employee of average health, strength and competence and his wife and a family of three children in a fair and average standard of comfort, having regard to the conditions of living prevailing among employees in the calling...
Page 48 - Authorities in aid of each other ; (vi) to facilitate and encourage the organization of representative bodies of employers, and of employees and the submission of industrial disputes to the Court by organizations...

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