HC Deb 19 November 1918 vol 110 cc3369-72

(1) For the purposes of this Act the prescribed rate of wages shall be as follows:

  1. (a) As respects a man or boy employed in any trade or industry or branch of a trade or industry in a district the prescribed rate shall be the district time rate or other recognised basis for determining wages (with any overtime, night work, week-end or holiday allowances and advances given during the War) generally applicable on the eleventh day of November nineteen hundred and eighteen to that class of workmen in that trade or industry or branch thereof in that district:
  2. (b) As respects a man or boy engaged in the sea service the rate shall be the prescribed rate payable on the said date to seamen or apprentices to the sea service of the class to which he belongs:
  3. (c) As respects a woman or girl employed in a trade or industry, or branch of a trade or industry, in a district on work of a class the wages paid for which by employers employing the majority of women or girls engaged on such work in the trade or industry or branch thereof in the district were on the said date regulated by an Order under the Munitions of War Acts, 1915 and 1917, or an award, the prescribed rate shall be time rate or other basis for determining wages (with any overtime, night work, week-end or holiday allowances, and advances given during the War) payable under or in consequence of the said Order or award:
  4. (d) As respects a woman or girl employed in a trade or industry or branch of a trade or industry in a district on work the wages paid for which were on the said date subject to an agreement between employers employing a majority of women or girls engaged on that work in the trade or industry or branch thereof in the district and one or more trade unions, the prescribed rate shall be the time rate or other basis for determining wages (with any overtime, night work, week-end or holiday 3370 allowances and advances given during the War) payable under or in consequence of the agreement:
  5. (e) As respects a woman or girl to whom neither of the last two paragraphs applies, the prescribed rate shall be the time rate or other basis for determining wages (with any overtime, night work, week-end, or holiday allowances and advances given during the War) paid on the said date by employers employing a majority of women or girls engaged on the same class of work in the trade or industry or branch thereof in the district in which she is employed, unless some other rate is fixed by the Minister of Labour on the advice of the Interim Court of Arbitration in which case the rate so fixed shall be the prescribed rate: Provided that—
    1. (i) where a woman or girl is employed on work of a class which before the War was customarily done by men, the prescribed rate shall be the time rate or other basis for determining wages (with any overtime, night work, week-end, or holiday allowances, and advances given during the War) payable for such work on the said date; and
    2. (ii) where the rate which is the prescribed rate as so defined is altered by virtue of an award made after the said date and before the passing of this Act, the rate as so altered shall, as from the date when the award takes effect, be the prescribed rate.

Mr. ROBERTS

I beg to move, in Subsection (1), paragraph (a), to leave out the word "district" ["shall be the district time rate"], and to insert instead thereof the word "recognised."

I may say that all the Amendments to this Clause are drafting Amendments.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In Subsection (1), paragraph (a), leave out the word "recognised."

After the word "any" ["with any overtime"], insert "allowances for."

Leave out the words "holiday allowances and advances given during the War," and insert "holidays when worked and additional war bonuses or war advances."

In paragraph (b), leave out the words "man or boy engaged," and insert "person employed."

After the word "the" ["the rate shall be"], insert "prescribed."

Leave out the word "prescribed" ["shall be the prescribed rate"].

Leave out the words "seamen or apprentices to the sea service," and insert "persons."

Leave out the word "he" ["the class to which he belongs"], and insert the words "that person."

In paragraph (c), leave out the word "and" ["1915 and 1917"], and insert "to."

After the word "be" ["the prescribed rate shall be"], insert "the."

After the word "any" ["with any overtime"], and insert "allowances for."

Leave out the words "holiday allowances and advances given during the War," and insert "holidays when worked and additional war bonuses or war advances."

In paragraph (d), after the word "any" ["with any overtime"], insert "allowances for."

Leave out the words "holiday allowances and advances given during the War," and insert instead thereof "holidays when worked and additional war bonuses or war advances."

In paragraph (e), after the word "any" ["with any overtime"], insert "allowance for."

Leave out the words "holiday allowances and advances given during the War," and insert instead thereof "holidays when worked and additional war bonuses or war advances."

In proviso (i), after the word "any" ["with any overtime"], insert the words allowances for."

Leave out the words "holiday allowances and advances given during the War," and insert instead thereof "holidays when worked and additional war bonuses or war advances."

Leave out the word "for" ["payable for such work"], and insert instead thereof "to women and girls employed on."

In proviso (ii) leave out the words "the rate which is the prescribed rate as so defined is altered by virtue of an award made after the said date, and before the passing of this Act," and insert instead thereof "arbitration proceedings have been commenced before the passing of this Act, and the rate which is the prescribed rate as hereinbefore defined is, or has been, altered by an award in those proceedings, taking effect after the said eleventh day of November."

—[Mr. G. Roberts.]

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.