BREACH OF AWARD

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 14

BREACH OF AWARD

TIME BOOK NOT KEPT. BOY WORKED AFTER SCHOOL. _ t (From Our Correspondent.) DARGAVILLE, Friday. A charge of failing to keep a time and wages book in respect of an employee was preferred against Wallace Supplies, Ltd., Dargaville, in the Dargaville Magistrate's Colirt this morning. Mr. G. A. Adler, inspector of awards, stated that the case was a serious one, inasmuch as at the time the firm employed one senior and four juniors, which was also a breach of the award. He said the firm must have been aware of the offence, as the employee concerned, a boy, had been employed for nine months, during which time there had been two changes in the management of the branch. The inspector added that such a breach was difficult to detect, as the boy was employed in the shop only after school and on Saturdays. Mr. C. Astley appeared for the defendant firm and said he considered the case a trivial one, as the firm employed the boy only eight hours a week, and that it had paid a considerable amount of back pay to the boy and other members of the staff. The magistrate, Mr. G. N. Morris, imposed a fine of £2 10/.