PIECEWORK BASIS.
RELIEF FOR CANTERBURY
Per Press Association
CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 6. Piecework will be introduced on the Ashley unemployment relief job on Monday and similar conditions will be enforced on the Waimakariri River Trust’s undertakings on Thursday. The men at the Ashley camp will be divided into gangs and each gang will be allotted a task for a given period. They will be paid as soon as the work is completed, irrespective of whether or not it takes several days short of the period they would normally work. The amount of work allotted is being made modest.
It was pointed out in official circles that the new system was not a straight out contract job for the men could not work more than their present allocation.
The engineer of the Waimakariri Trust said the trust was aiming to make the piecework rates very liberal, taking into consideration the fact that a great number of men were unused to labouring work.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 266, 7 October 1933, Page 4
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160PIECEWORK BASIS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 266, 7 October 1933, Page 4
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