Higher Pay : Workers Must Take Risk
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BEFORE offering higher bonuses and holiday payments to their employees, who accepted them, the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., warned workers that they must share responsibility with the company if adverse conditions arose from the increases.
The offer was made in response to a
claim by the Coventry District Committee of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. The company said that Ain meeting the increases they
would draw on savings in labour cost which could be made by the installation of special plant.
It has been made clear to employees that rises in pay. together with higher costs of materials, could he serious to the company in the face of severe competition.
NO PROOF OF BONA FIDES
I N the House of Commons last week, Mr. J. A. Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Transport, refused to make regulations requiring applicants for roadservice licences to prove the bona fides of their supporters. He said that the Licensing Authorities were "perfectly capable of weighing the case put to them without further assistance."