Appendix
Fair Wages Resolution
This Resolution was passed by the House of Commons in 1946 (427 Hansard 628). Its terms are as follows:
1. (a) The contractor shall pay rates of wages, and observe hours and conditions of labour, not less favourable than those established for the trade or industry, in the district where the work is carried out, by machinery of negotiation or arbitration to which the parties are organisations of employers and trade unions representative, respectively, of substantial proportions of the employers and workers engaged in the trade or industry in the district.
(b) In the absence of any rates of wages, hours or conditions of labour so established the contractor shall pay rates of wages, and observe hours and conditions of labour, which are not less favourable than the general level of wages, hours and conditions observed by other employers whose general circumstances in the trade or industry in which the contractor is engaged are similar.