HOLIDAY PAT
FACTORY WORKERS
IMPORTANT POINT
INVOLVED
(By Teleprapb—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day,
The statement that on interpretation of a section of the Factories Act at present the subject of consideration by the Court of Appeal over £100,000 is involved throughout New Zealand in respect of holiday pay for workers in factories ! coming within the Act's purview, was made by Mr. L. Alderton, Auckland, in the Magistrate's Court today before Mr. V. S. L. Paterson, S.M. The case involved a claim relating to a clause in dispute brought by the Inspector of Factories at New Plymouth, Mr. F. Wilson, and as decision on the claim would depend upon the decision of the Appeal Court the Magistrate adjourned the hearing sine die.
Mr. Alderton appeared for the defendants, the New Zealand Farmers' Fertiliser Company, who were sued by the Inspector of Factories for penalty in respect lo an alleged breach of the Taranaki Chemical Manure and Acid Workers' Award in that the company employed A. J. Jones and seven other workers during the period ending Da« cember 26, 1937, and failed to pay them 'lor Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 10
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189HOLIDAY PAT Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 10
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