OVERTIME RATES
MUST BE ON BASIC WAGE.
;An important interpretation! of an industrial award affecting the rate of payment for overtime has been given by Mr. Justice Stringer, President of tho Arbitration Court. The clause in question was 3a of the Wellington furniture trades award, which reads as follows :: — "Overtime for work done before the ordinary hour for commencing" work, or after the ordinary hour for ceasing work, shall be paid on the basic wage, at the rate of time and a-hatf for the first three hours, and thereafter double time until tie ordinary time for commencing. work next day if worked continuously." The question put to hie Honour was : "If several men being paid 2s 6d an hour fo,r ordinary time worked overtime, at what rates would they be paid?" His Honour considered that the rate to be paid should be time and a-half on ordinary time calculated on the respective basic wages, apart from any bonus fixed by award for the various classes covered thereby, .arid irrespective of wages actually being paid.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 85, 7 October 1920, Page 6
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174OVERTIME RATES Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 85, 7 October 1920, Page 6
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