Mantle and Costume Wages Council

HC Deb 31 October 1956 vol 558 c174W

Mr. Owen

asked the Minister of Labour what principles determined the appointment of the numerical strength of the trade organisations on the Mantle and Costume Wages Council.

Mr. Iain Macleod

In this as in other Wages Councils the aim was to secure that the employers' side had amongst its members one or more with special knowledge of each main section of the trade, of different types of establishment and of the principal areas in which the trade is carried on. The Minister is required by the Wages Councils Act, 1945, to consult organisations which appear to him to represent employers. Nominations are called for from such organisations, but each member is appointed as an individual and not as a representative of any organisation to which he may belong.