ACTION AGAINST TWO EMPLOYEES
LEFT WITHOUT GIVING NOTICE (PBZnS iSSOCUXIOK TILBGBAM.) WELLINGTON. February 3. It was unusual for the Labour Department to take action against employees lor breaches of awards, remarked Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. during the hearing of a case against two servants for a breach of the Wellington private hotel employees' award. A penalty of.£2 was claimed against Mildred Gillingham and Lorna Fahey. on the ground that they 'eft their employer on September 2Et 1937. without notice. They did not appear. The Inspector of Awards. Mr J. R. Hanlon, said the girls had been .paid in advance, and when they had walked out their employer had been unable to deduct two days' pay in lieu of notice. Evidence was given by the girl's employer that she had given Gillingham her holidays a month early. She observed the 40-hour week, although she might have employed them for 44. It was not true that the girls had to work long hours, as she employed a staff of seven to attend to 19 guests. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £2 in each case.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 4 February 1938, Page 14
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