HOLIDAY PAY.
WORKERS ON NIGHT SHIFT
CASE BEFORE THE FULL COURT
(Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, December 18
The Full Court late this afternoon commenced the hearing of an appeal from a. decision by a Christchurch magistrate. The Inspector of Factories at Christchurch had prosecuted Booth, Macdonald and Company, Ltd., for failing to pay a proper rate of remuneration %o a worker employed on Christmas Day and' Boxing Day. Aecordings to the award the worker’s rate of pay was 2s 4d an hour, but h© had been continuously employed for six months on night shift, and was therefore entitled to an extra 3s a s shift, making his daily rate 22s a day. The Magistrate held that the workefr was entitled to receive 22s a day for Christmas Day and Boxing Day. He entered a conviction:,against Booth, Macdonald and Company, 'Ltd., and ordered' the firm to pay posts, 13s. *? . The contention of the appellant, who wias represented .by Mr J. L. Hensley, of Christchurch, was that payment of the extra shift remuneration should have been disregarded, and that only 19s a day should! have been, the rill© for the two days. Mr F. B. Adams appeared on behalf of the Labour Department. The hearing will he resumed at 10 o’clock to-morrow.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 59, 19 December 1940, Page 9
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