HURT GOING FOR WAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1936, Page 8

HURT GOING FOR WAGES

EMPLOYER LIABLE. LONDON, October 27. When his wages did not arrive at the usual time, Henry George Bond, a labourer, of Luton-road, Plaistow, started to cycle to his employer’s house for them. On the way he met with an accident and his left arm was injured. The question arose at Bow County Court yesterday whether this was “in the course of his employment.” Judge Frankland awarded Bond workman’s compensation of £l/2/6 a week from June 12, against his employer, Mi’ S. Hopkins, a contractor, of New Barn-street, Plaistow. The defence was that Bond was not engaged to ride a bicycle in any capacity, and that at the time of the accident his employment had finished. When the foreman said that the wages arrived late, Judge Frankland asked: How long was applicant to wait “on the job” if the wages did not come? What would a wife say to a working man if he went home without his wages?” The judge added that the practice to pay “on the job” had broken down, and the workman in going off to his employer’s house was dealing with the situation.