BAKERS' AWARD CASE.
. ,„ ■ ■ .. ♦ . — INFORMATION DISMISSED. < [BV TELEGRAPH. —PRHSS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Tuesday. Reserved judgment was given by Dr. McArthur, S.M., to-day in the case in which the inspector of awards proceeded against Jas. Godber and Co., Limited, to enforce a penalty for an alleged breach of the Wellington co-operative bakers' award relating to pastrycooks. It appeared that defendants, for the past three years, had been working one of their men .every ninth Sunday at sponging without paying him overtime according to the award. His Worship said he was unable to understand how such a practice could have gone on for so long a period if the men had not been content. •He was of the opinion that the case could be treated as coming under section 16 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1908, and that the breach proved ] against defendants" could, therefore, be ( treated as excusable., The information j would be dismissed. , At the previous hearing of the case it J was stated that defendants' men were now working under the strict terms of the * award. j I * ; ; ; ■ ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15047, 17 July 1912, Page 10
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