The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-11-05
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2. Individual merit increases with
in established rate ranges.
3. Operation of an established plan
of wage or salary increases based on
length of service.
4. Increased productivity und e I
piece-wOrk or incentive plans.
3. Operation of an apprentice or
trainee system.
Q--Can an employer allow these in
dividual increases to raise his costs
and cause his prices to 90 up?
A-No. No employer will be allowed
by the government to use these in
creaSeS either to get Il price increase
or to resist an otherwise justifiable
reduction in his price ceiling.
Q-What about piece rates? Sup
pose an employer set piece rate be
fore or after Oct. 3 which, when tried
out in practice, did not give the emf
ployeeS the normal earnings prevailing
in that plant for the type of job. Cam
he adjust this rate so as to yield the
normal and expected amount?
A-Ies.
Q-The Executive order Of oct. 3
states that there shall be mo increases
in wage rates" unless they are ap-
proved by the WLB Can an employer
get around this by hiring a new worker
at higher wages than he is paying his
present employees?
A-No, he cannot hire new worker
at more than the established rate in
tn" plant for the job.
Prevailing Rates TO Rule
Q-What about new jobs or new
| plants, where there are no established
wage rates?
not, without WLB approval pay more
| than the wage rates prevailing for
similar jobs in the area
Q-What about increases in wage
rates granted before oct 3?
A-Unlcss the WLB later decides to
review them, all wage increases put
into effect on or before Oct 3 do not
need WLB approval. Such increases
must have been agreed to in writing
or formally communicated to the en-
ployees on or before oct. 3. They must
also have been made applicable to work
done prior to oct. 3.
Q-Let's take II specific case. a
manufactures made II written agree
ment with the union i'm his plant on
oct. 3 for in increase of / cents IN
hour for his employees retroactive To
Sept. 20. Does he have to have this
increase approved by the VILE before
putting it in his workers pay cvc-
opes?
A-No
Q-But suppose, in the case Just put,
the workers didn't actually get the
check till the next payday, say Oct.
10?
A-The increase does not have to be
approved. The men started earning the
money, and the increase was In effect,
on oct g.
Q-What about increases in wage
rates which We're agreed to befol"
Dct.3 but which do not 80 into effect
until some future date? DO they need
WLH approval?
A-Ics, If they are payment for
work done after Oct. ). The typical
case Is that of Il contract made before
oct. 3 providing that at some futur"
date the workers will be granted an
automatic increase tied to the increase
in the cost of living which has occurred
in the meantime. Such future increases
must be approved by the WIB. This
Is also true Of arbitration awards if
the agreement to arbitrate was made
before that date.
Q-What about salary increases?
After what date do they need VILE
approval?
A-lncrcaSeS in salaries after Ocr.
y must be approved by the WLR, un-
less otherwise exempted.
Q-Arc the exemptions in the case
of salaries the same AS In the case of
wages?
A-Ies
Q-Docs IN employer who is not en-
gagged in war production have To sub
init wage and salary increases to the
WLB for approval?
A-leS. There is no distinction made
In the executive order between war
work and non-war work.
Q-What about municipal, state on
Federal government employees?
A-Wage and salary increases for
all government employees are subject
to regulation under the executive order
of Oct. ) unless the amount of such
salary or wages Is fixed by statute.
OF wnpp or salary iurr,nSr nrn
made in the form OF war bonds or
stamps, do these increases need to be
approved by the WLB?
A-leS. 1t makes no difference
whether the increases are granted in
cash or In war bonds or stamps or any
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