TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1922, Page 7

TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD.

lAX INTERPRETATION RY (YM'RT. ! Tlie Arbitration Court has filed an | interpretation of a clause in the i i Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Mail-j liorongh. Kelson, Wcstlnnd, I'antorbury. Otago and Southland Typographical a nurd. Tlie clause states tha* any employee under this section required to work on ! Sunday. Christmas Day. N'o.w r'-i i j Day, or ftood Friday, shall Ik- paid double rates, and if required to work on Labour i Day or any <itlier holiday observed by ! the ofl'tee in this seetion. time and a-liall". In the. ease of a morning m-WRpaper the evening preceding each of these holidays shall he reckoned tlie holiday. By j arrangement between a majority of the I companionship and the employer the evening of any of these holidays may be observed as the holiday. Vor night workers Sunday shall mean from noon on Saturday till noon on Sunday. The I question ih'at has been laid before the I Court by the secretary of tlie Auckland I union is: "Are wulkers who work on Sundays entitled to three times the ordinary pay. or to double pay only." The Court states that H is of opinion that this question is answered in an interpretation given by the Court. la>l August. Sunday is not ordinarily a working day. and work done on that day is to he paid for at double rates—that is to say. two days' wages are to he paid in addition to the ordinary weekly wage.