HELD TO BE FACTORY WORKERS
Employees of Timber Merchants By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, May 10. Holding that employees of timber merchants, even if their main duties were done in the open, were factory workers and were thus entitled to pay for holidays allowed under the Factories Amendment Act, 1936, Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., gave judgment for the Labour Department against C. E. Otley Ltd. this afternoon. The case was brought as a test by the Labour Department and, at the conclusion, Mr. R. A. Young, who appeared for the defendant company, asked that security be fixed for appeal, which was done.
Although these men had not done any work on Labour Day last year, the Labour Department claimed that they were entitled to payment as Labour Day was one of the statutory holidays fixed by the Factories Amendment Act.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 192, 11 May 1937, Page 10
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140HELD TO BE FACTORY WORKERS Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 192, 11 May 1937, Page 10
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