Overtime Breach
WARRANTS NOT APPLIED FOR Proceedings by the Inspector of Factories against Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., Lower Hutt, in the Magistrate’s Court l’esulted in the defendant company being fined a total of £3, witli £1 costs, by Mr. J. S. Hanna, S.M. The factory manager, Mr. P. G. Gale, entering a plea of guilty to two charges relating to the employment of women on overtime, stated that failure to comply with the Factories Act had been due to inadvertence and to a misinterpretation of Section 20, which provided that not more than nine hours’ overtime should be worked by a female factory worker in any one week. On this charge the Magistrate convicted and fined the defendant company £l, a further penalty of £2 being imposed for failure to make application for overtime warrants.
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Hutt News, Volume XXI, Issue 50, 9 June 1948, Page 9
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135Overtime Breach Hutt News, Volume XXI, Issue 50, 9 June 1948, Page 9
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