AWARD DISPUTATION
LIMITATION OF HOURS.
EFFECT ON OVERTIME,
(Received 9 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
The Full High Court has granted the Clyde Engineering Company leave to appeal against the decision upholding the judgment of a magistrate that the company must pay overtime for all time worked over 44 hours per week. Counsel for., the appellant company stated that the application for special leave was made on the ground that the Court under whose jurisdiction the case first came was exercising Federal jurisdiction inasmuch as it was dealing with a matter which arose under the Commonwealth Constitution, or involved its interpretation. The company was working under a Federal award, but the State Ac*- picked up the award and said it should not have any effect according to its trend, but should have quite another effect. Therefore, the State Act was inconsistent with the Commonwealth Act.
Counsel added that 40,000 employees in New South Wales were affected by the State Court's decision.—A. and N.Z. '
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1926, Page 5
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