BREACH OF AN AWARD.
UNDERPAID ASSISTANTS. AN AMERICAN GROCERY. [BY TKLEGIUJ'H. —PBKSS ASSOCIATION. ] DUNE DIN. Thursday. Tho inspector of awauls proceeded in the Magistrate's Court against R. Stavelev 011 four charges of breach of the grocers' award, the salaries paid his assistants, all girls, being £2, £1 ss, £1 and 15s, whereas the minimum wage for a grocer's assistant is £4 10s, Evidence showed that defendant was running his business on novel lines, in vogue in the United States, the goods being arranged in sina.ll packages and selected by the customers themselves, who brought, them to the counter where an assistant called out the price, after which payment was made at the cash register. Defendant regarded his assistants as clerks. They had no knowledge of the grocery trade and merely called the prices marked on the packages. The jnagistrate held that it was a groc»ry business run in a novel way, new to New Zealand. Taking this into consideration. with the fact that defendant was new to the Dominion, he imposed a nominal penalty of 10s on each charge
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19321, 7 May 1926, Page 14
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179BREACH OF AN AWARD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19321, 7 May 1926, Page 14
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