Under the Act, an organisation of employers and an organisation of work- people, both of which must be representative of the industry, or the grades of the industry concerned, may make joint application to the Minister of Labour and National Service for the making of an Crior in respect of any agreement reached by such organisations as to the rates of wages to be paid to persons employed in the industry.
Unless the Minister is satisfied that the organisations making the application are not representative of the industry or the grades of the industry concerned, he is required to appoint a Board consisting of a Chairman and two other members uncomected with the industry to consider the applica- tion. Each of the portios to the application may appoint six of its members as assessors to the Board.
If the Board make a unanimous recommendation to that effect, the Minister may make an Order setting out the rates of wages embodied in the agreement, which are thereafter considered as a term of contract of every employed person concerned. Employers are required to keep records showing compliance with the Order, and any employer paying less than the prescribed rate is liable to a monetary fine.
(f) Road Haulage Wages Act, 1938.
The main purpose of the Act is to make provision with respect to the remuneration of workers employed in connection with the mechanical transport of goods by road.
For this purpose road haulage workers are divided into two main classes according to whether their employment is in connection with a goods vehicle for the operation of which
(a) a public carrier's or a limited carrier's licence;
(b) a private carrier's licence
is required under the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, the broad distinction between the two classes being that the former relates to the carriage of goods for hire or reward while the latter relates to the carriage of goods not for hire or reward.
For the purpose of regulating the remuneration of workers employed in connection with vehicles used for the carriage of goods for hire or reward, the Act provides for the establishment of a Central Wages Board for Great Britain, a Scottish Area Board, and Area Boards in England and Wales in each of the ten traffic areas in which the country is divided.
Area Boards are composed of equal numbers of representatives of employers and of workpeople in the respective Areas, while the Central Board is composed of
(a) one member rom each side of each Area Board;
(b) not less than twelve or more than eighteen members representing
employers and workers in equal proportions;
(c) not less than three or more than five independent members not connected
with the transport of goods, one of whom is Chairman of the Board.
All members of both the Area Boards and the Central Board are appointed by the Minister, due provision being made for prior consultation with organisa- tions appearing to represent the employers and workers concerned.
The functions of the Central Board are, inter alia, to submit to the Minister of Labour and National Service, after consultation with Area Boards, and after consideration of objections made by any person affected thereby, proposals for fixing the remuneration to be paid to the workpeople in connection with the class of vehicles in question. The Minister is then required to make an Order giving effect to the proposals under which the proposed remuneration becomes "statutory remuneration" legally enforceable as between all road haulage workers for whom the remuneration is so fixed and their employers.
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