WATERSIDE DISPUTE
MEAL HOURS CLAUSE.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, November 16.
A written judgment has been given in the Arbitration Court by Mr Justice Page concerning an application by the Waterside Workers’ Union for the interpretation of certain clauses as a sequel to disputes at New Ply* mouth and Bluff. His Honor held that the employer need not state the time to which he required men to work when giving an order to work part of a meal hour. It was also held that the employer need not’ state to what time after the hour he required men to work when giving an order to work a meal hour and time following a meal hour. i Arising from the Bluff dispute, the Court was'asked to determine whether men employed in railway trucks receiving-Walpole Island guano were entitled to a special rate of ninepence an hour under Clause 4, Sub-clause h of the award. The men were paid sixpence an hour under Clause 4, Subsection g. The Coui’t decided that the men were entitled to the rate provided in Sub-clause h.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 November 1935, Page 2
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