FORTY-FOUR HOURS WEEK
VALIDITY TESTED. (Received 1.36 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Dya. The first ease to test the validity of the State Forty-four Hour Week Act to workers whose wages and conditions are governed by the Commonwealth Arbitration Court was heard at the Parramatta Small Debts Court, when an employee of the Clyde Engineering Company sought to recover 9s 4d, being the difference between £5 3s 2d received by him as wages for working 44 hours, and £5 12s 6d, the amount set down by the Federal award for a week’s work. Counsel for the defendant company claimed that the State Act was invalid and outside the powers of the State Legislature. The magistrate reserved decision. ' j The case will probably reach the High Court before being definitely settled.—A. and N.2. :
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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