Bonuses Not Payable On Workers’ Holidays
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 17. A decision in favour of an employer has been given by the Court of Arbitration in a case of importance under the Annual Holidays Act, 1944, which had been stated to the court for its opinion by Mr. 11. J. Thompson, S.M. The Inspector of Awards claimed from the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company. Limited. £lO as a penalty for a breach of the Annual Holidays Act. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant employed a worker under the New Zealand clothing trades employees’ award in a factory operating the bonus system and failed to pay him two weeks’ ordinary pay for Lis annual holiday.
The court has ruled that the bonus payments were not part of the worker's ordinary pay.
The worker’s representative on the court, Mr. F. C. Allerby. in a dissenting opinion, says that, in his opinion, such payments should be taken into account for the purposes of holiday pay under the Annual Holidays Act.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 7
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