HOLIDAYS BY ARBITRATION
TO THB EDITOR OF TH* PBE» B - Si r ,— Concerning applications for new awards pending before the Arbitration Court, may I suggest that the Court has no power to grant holidays or pay to employees? It has jurisdiction to fix wages and hours and prescribe conditions of work, but surely it cannot order an employer to pay his employee for doing nothing. I suggest that employers should refuse to pay any more for these compulsory holidays. Suppose a union or an inspector of awards should sue to recover such a payment in the Magistrate’s Court, could it be said that the employer owes a debt to his employee? Certainly not! I cannot see that payment could be enforced by a court of justice. And what is to be said of the mentality of the trade-unionist who, having been paid to the last minute for time he has worked, time and a half for overtime, and double rates for work on holidays, demands from his employer a gift in the shape of payment for days he has not worked?— Yours, etc., J.M.W. February 1, 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 5 February 1938, Page 20
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