CASUAL ORCHARD HANDS
PAYMENT FOR GOOD FRIDAY NOT OBLIGATORY CPBES3 ASSOCIATION TILIGRAM.) NELSON. September 17. A decision of importance to fruitgrowers was given by Mr T. E. Maursell. S.M., this morning, the effect of which is that casual orchard hands need not be paid fur the Good Friday holiday. As a test case, a charge was made against Arthur McKee of employing an agricultural worker in an orchard and failing to allow a holiday on Good Friday without deduction. The information was dismissed. The Magistrate held that Section 3A of the Agricultural Workers Extension Order was ultra vires, and. further, that the clause did not extend to casual workers. “There must necessarily be a continuity of relationship, and it is obviously repugnant to treat a casual engagement as a continuous one. Had Friday not been a holiday, the employee may or may not have received casual employment. At any rate he had not a contractual right to such employment. Therefore there was no breach of the extension order in failure to pay wages.” he said.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 18 September 1937, Page 5
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