CLAIMED AWARD BREACHES
Refusal By Court (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 17. Four claims by Kenneth Coveny, inspector of awards, Lower Hutt, against Philips Electrical Industries. Ltd., for penalities for alleged breaches of the Electrical Workers' Award have been refused in a judgment delivered in the Arbitration Court. The claims concerned female workers employed in the defendant's Naenoe radio factory on certain classes of work which necessitated in varying degrees the making of visual and instrument tests of equipment. The plaintiff claimed that these workers should have been paid the rate prescribed for a tester. The judgment said that after the fullest consideration of the language used in the clauses of the award, the conclusion was reached that the classifications “tester” and “checker" were not applicable to the relatively simple testing and checking of components of radio equipment which were incidental to the work of assemblers.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 12
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146CLAIMED AWARD BREACHES Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 12
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