ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 69, 14 December 1907, Page 7

ARBITRATION COURT.

TAILORESSES" AND-;OTHER^CLOTHING ; ,'• .. ,"..■:AN INTERPRETATION. : . Tho' following Interpretation was received ■yesterday, by .tho; Clerk of Awards' (Mr.. W. A. Hawkins) from the President of the' Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice Siih).:—;,'.'.'' Clause 17c.'—"No wages-shall ho' paid for time lost through the factory being closed for the annual factory holidays, or for public holidays other than statutory holidays, or lor stock taking and cleaning the premises." Question: Tho above clauso prescribes that '"Wages shall bo paid for statutory holidays." Does this provision apply to all workers under the award, or only to those workors who require to bo paid by tho provisions'of Section 33 of tho Factories Act, 1901? :.''•■-' Aimwer: Section 33 of tho Factories Act, 1901, provides that certain specified holidays shall be allowed to every woman and" boy under 18 years of ago employed in' a factory. So far. as these workors are concerned, these holidays-'are therefore statutory holidays. There are, howover, no such provisions -with rogard to adult male workers,' and so far as-they arc concerned there are no statutory holidays. Tho Court is therefore of opinion that prcssers arc not ontitled to be paid for the holidays mentioned in Section 33 of tho factories Act, 1901, unless they work on such holidays.