se A.2 above
1. above
ee A.2 above
ee A.7 above
See A.6 above
Jee A.5 above
which industries most need wages to be fixed by law and where control over hours of work is most essential.
(2) Further surveys are probably necessary, e.g. the whole problem
of "contractors" in many forms of employment, not only docks and construction work, where it is found in many countries, but also in some industrial undertakings where teams of workers are employed as a gang, and protection of wages, provision of benefits etc. is difficult to control.
(3) While action can go ahead on certain amendments to existing legis-
lation and certain straightforward new legislation, the subject of Social Security requires a separate and special survey before. any action can be taken on it.
(4) Information about wages, hours of work, etc. outside industrial
Surveys should be undertakings does not appear to be available. done in such forms of employment as shops, hotels, restaurants, offices, transport and others.
(5) Legislation about outworkers cannot be drawn up until a full
It is doubtful whether picture of their conditions is available. anyone knows what rate per hour an out-worker earns when paid piece-work at rates agreed between employer and worker.
C.
MISCELLANEOUS
One of the reasons advanced by employers for not reducing hours of work in certain industries, e.g. garment-making, has been that there
In view of Mr. Gibbs's comments on was a shortage of skilled labour.
the enormous numbers of young people coming on to the labour market, it seems that one of the most obvious ways of easing the situation wouldį be for Government to provide accelerated basic training for young people, to enable them to go straight into productive employment. Employers might be asked to pay a levy or, on engaging someone who had
Such measures had a training course, to pay a fee to Government. would soon enable firms to run two eight-hour shifts, instead of employ- ing people for a sixty-hour week plus overtime.