PRINTERS’ HOURS.

Grey River Argus, 30 May 1922, Page 5

PRINTERS’ HOURS.

COURT INTERPRETS AWARD. HOLIDAY TIME. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 29. The Arbitration Court has filed an interpretation of the clause in the Northern Taranaki-Wellington-Marl-borough Nelson- Westland - Canterbury - Otago and Southland typographical award. The clause states that any employee required to work on Sunday, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, or Good Friday, shall be paid double rates, and, if required to work on Labour Day or any other holiday observed by the offices in the section, time ami u-half sh; 11 be paid. In the ease of a morning newspaper, the evening preceding each of these holidays shall be reckoned the holiday. By an arrangement between a majority of the “companionship and the employer, however, the evening of any of those holidays may be observed as the holiday. For night workers, Sunday shall mean from noon on Saturday till noon on Sunday. A question laid before the Court by the Auckland Union is: “Are workers who work on Sunday entitled to three times the ordinary pay, or to double pay only ? ’ ’ The Court states it is of the opinion that this question is answered in the interpretation given by the Court last August. Sunday is not ordinarily a working day, and work done ou that day is to be paid at double rates. That is to say, two days wages are to be paid in addition to the ordinary weekly wage.