BREACHES OF AWARD

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 129, 25 February 1938, Page 3

BREACHES OF AWARD

Payment Of Laundry Workers Reserved judgment in favour of plaintiff was entered by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, in the case in which the inspector of awards. Mr. J. R. Hanlon, proceeded against the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand for two breaches of the Wallington laundry workers’ award, a penalty of £1 being fixed for each breach. The claim set out that the defendant company, which operates a large laundry at Evans Bay for the purpose of servicing its ships, failed to pay two of its laundry workers the wages prescribed by the award, a penalty of £lO for each breach being sought. It was contended that the first worker. Holloway, was entitled to an extra 5/- a week hy virtue of being both a packer and sorter, and that the second worker, the laundry foreman, was entitled to an extra 10/- in excess of the rate received by the highest paid worker. The defence' contested the point that Holloway was both a packer and sorter. The magistrate held that Holloway was engaged for half his time at general laundry work and the other half in packing bundles of washed articles into bags and that the defendant company had committed breaches of the award.