TIMBER WORKERS
FACTORIES ACT APPLIES PAY FOR STATUTORY HOLIDAY [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION J CHKISTCHURCH, Tuesday Holding that employees of timber merchants, even if their main duties were done in the open, were factory workers, and were thus entitled to pay for holidays allowed under the Factories Amendment Act, 1936, Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., gave judgment for the Labour Department against C. E. Otley, Limited. The case was brought as a tost by the Labour Department, and at the conclusion Mr. R. A. Young, who appeared for the defendant company, asked that security be fixed for appeal, which was done. 'Although these men had not done any work on Labour Day last year, the Labour Department claimed that they were entitled to payment, as Labour Day was one of the statutory holidays fixed bv the Factories Amendment Act.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22726, 12 May 1937, Page 15
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