BUTCHERY TRADE
AN IMPORTANT DECISION “PERMANENT CASUALS’’ (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, 25th March. A decision of importance to employers in the butchery trade through New Zealand was given in the Magistrate's Court to-day by Mr Reid, S.M., when ho upheld the employment in butchers’ shops of permanent “casual” bauds. The action was brought by the Labour Department against John Shaw, butcher, who was alleged to have employed a first small-goods hand for four years below the minimum award wage. The defence was that the hand, who received £3 weekly, was employed from Mondays to Fridays on a casual basis, receiving a higher hourly rate, but being subject to dismissal at the end of any day. Counsel cited railway permanent casuals as another instance. The magistrate declined to state a ease for appeal, but entered judgment for defendant, who waived the question of security for appeal to allow the Labour Department to carry the case to the Court of Appeal.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 March 1936, Page 11
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