WAGES DURING EPIDEMIC.
jj'e PICTURE THEATRES' LIABILITY. ~ APPEAL COUBT DECISION. (Bj- Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Appeal Court gave judgment today in the case of the Dominion Picture Theatres v. Whiting. The Court held that wages were not payable under the award unless the performer was performing, and consequently there had been no breach of award. The question of costs was held over. The question dealt with was whether a penalty had been incurred for a breach of award, and the judgro>jit expressly forebore to deal with the question whether, under contract between performers and employees, the former had any claim. The case referred to was sent from Auckland. It was an appeal from a decision given by Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., against a number of the Auckland picf'in> theatres, and in favour of the Musicians' Union, who claimed wages for the period during which the theatres were closed, owing to the influenza epidemic. The theatre proprietors were dried £ 1 f-ach and against this the case of the Dominion Picture Theatre;, was taken as a test case.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 105, 4 May 1920, Page 5
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