CASUAL WORKER
HOLIDAY TEST CASE
NONPAYMENT IN ORCHARD
(Bj' Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, This Day. A decision of importance to fruitgrowers was delivered'by'the Magistrate, Mr. Maunsell, this morning, the effect of which is that casual orchard, hands need not be paid for the Good Friday holiday. As a'test'case a charge was brought against Arthur McKee, of employing an agricultural worker in his orchard and failing to allow a holiday on Good Friday without deduction. The information was dismissed. The Magistrate held that Section 3A of the Agricultural Workers' Extension Order was ultra vires.and further.that the clause did not extend to casual workers. .. "There must necessarily be a continuity of ■ relationship," he said, "It is obviously repugnant to treat.a casual engagement as a continuous one. Had the Friday not been a holiday the employee may or may not have received casual employment. At any rate he had not a contractional right to such employment and therefore there was no.failure to pay wages in breach of the extension order."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1937, Page 11
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166CASUAL WORKER Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1937, Page 11
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