BOOTMAKING PAYMENTS.
DEDUCTIONS HELD ILLEGAL. BONUS A PART OF WAGES. Following friendly proceedings between the inspector of-awards and Dearslys, Limited, boot manufacturers, to determine the legality of deducting 5s from a bonus as a penalty for damage clone by an. operative to articles he manufactures, reserved judgment in favour of plaintiff has been given by the Arbitration Court. A case had been stated by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., and while the inspector of awards, Mr. Peacock, contended the bonus amounted to wages, and was therefore not subject to deductions, Mr. Gregory, for Dearslys, Limited, maintained the bonus was an addition to the wages, and something to which the employees were not strictly entitled. Mr. Justice Frazer remarked on Tuesday that the Court would endeavour to see if there was any way of reconciling the two viewpoints, but he ruled that the bonus must be considered as wages. In the reserved judgment delivered on Saturday, His Honor repea|ed that the bonus came under tjje heading of wages, and said he would have to hold the deductions were not permissible. The case will be referred back to the magistrate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19455, 11 October 1926, Page 12
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