DEDUCTION-FREE WAGES

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 21, 19 October 1944, Page 4

DEDUCTION-FREE WAGES

Reference To “Popular Misconception” What he termed a “widespread popular misconception” as to the assessment of social security contribution to be handed over by employers to the Lund on account of deduetion-free wages paid to employees, was referred to by counsel for the Social Security Department when explaining one of the charges against a defendant in the Magistrates’ Court, Lower Hutt, yesterday. o x. In the particular case, in which Waiwhetu Bakery (Dixon Brothers), Ltd., were defendants, the employee was paid £9 a week without the deduction, counsel said. The firm had been paying nine half-crowns to the fund. The deductions, however, were established by law as part of tlie wages. The employee’s wages therefore worked out at. £lO/5/9, and the tax payable was £l/5/9, ami not £l/2/6 which the'firm hud been paying. Defendant company pleaded guilty through its counsel, Mi-. N. P. Gillespie, who said the offence was duo. as counsel for the prosecution bad stated, to a misconception of the position. * The magistrate imposed a nominal penally.