INDUSTRIAL LAW
DAIRY COMPANIES e.Vv’E £3O,COD , [Per United Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, April 22. A decision on a point of industrial law, affecting dairy companies throughout the Dominion to an estimated extent of upwards of £30,000 a year in the payment of wages to factory employees, was made by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., at the Stratford Court, in an action brought by an inspector of factories against the Cardiff Co-opera-tive Dairy Company. The magistrate upheld the Cardiff Company’s contention that a clause in the 1930 award, providing for three weeks’ holiday on full pay, or a proportionate period (according to the length of employment) at_ the termination of an employee’s services, was not, under the provisions of the Finance Act 1936, applicable to the agreement which was made in 1934 and which was still in force. Had the decision been against the company the dairy industry would have been obliged to pay £5,000 to employees in Taranaki alone this season. The case was regarded as a test.
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Evening Star, Issue 22630, 23 April 1937, Page 11
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168INDUSTRIAL LAW Evening Star, Issue 22630, 23 April 1937, Page 11
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