Miss LEEasked the Minister of Labour what steps are taken to ensure that men employed on road schemes financially assisted by the Unemployment Grants Committee are given fair wages and working conditions?
§ Miss BONDFIELDIt is a condition of grant for all approved schemes that where the work is carried out by contract, the contract must include the Fair Wages Clause as inserted in Government contracts; where the local authority undertakes the work by direct labour, the rate of wages paid must not exceed the local authority's rate to its own workmen on similar classes of work, or the recognised district rate if that is lower.