Bonus Payments Are Not Part of Worker’s Ordinary Wage

Grey River Argus, 17 December 1948, Page 5

Bonus Payments Are Not Part of Worker’s Ordinary Wage

P.A. WELLINGTON, Dec. 16 A decision in favour of the • employer has been given by the Cour: 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 H. J. Thompson. S.M. The Inspector of Awards claimed from the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, Ltd., £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 a bonus system, anofailed to pay him two weeks’ ordinary pay for his annual holidays. The Court has ruled that bonus I payments were not part of the> workers’ ordinary pay. The workers’ representative on the court, Mr F. C. Allerby, in a dissent' ing opinion, says that, in his opinion, such payments should be taken into account for the purposes of holiday oay under the Annual Holidays’ Act.