BAKERY FOREMAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23100, 27 July 1938, Page 20

BAKERY FOREMAN

EMPLOYER'S POSITION PROVISION UNDER AWARD POINT FOR COURT TO DECIDE [ nv i it a i'ii -i'iikss association] CIl KISTCII t'HCIf, Tuesday Whether or not it is necessary to employ a i'iirenian in a bakehouse was the issue placed before the Second Court oi Arbitration this morning, when an appeal against the decision ot' the magistrate who dismissed a case brought by the Labour Department, against I/. A. Woodward, Limited, for an alleged breach oi i he Northern, Wellington and Canterbury bakers and pastrycooks' and their labourers' award, was hoard. Mr. I{. T. Bailey, for the Labour Department, submitted that an on<- J plover was entitled to ho regarded as j a foreman only if he was a competent j baker and if he did the work of a i foreman. there was no doubt that Mr. | Woodward was competent, but if Ins 1 stall bewail work at 10 p.m. and worked • until i a.in., and he was there only ! occasionally between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., ! he con It I not be clashed as the foreman, j Mr. .Justice Hunter remarked that 1 the magistrate had held in his judgment that there was nothing in the award regarding a foreman having to be employed. Mr. Hailey submitted that a foreman should he employed or that Mr. Woodward should do the foreman's work. .Someone must accept responsibility, and undertake direction. It was accepted in

'lie irado that a foreman should 1:0 employed. If there was only one man in a bakery he Mas paid the foreman's wages, Dr. A. C. Ilaslam, for Woodward, Limited, said that the defence had been thai .Air. Woodward did substantially the work of a foreman and there was no provision in the award requiring a 11»r< innn to lie employed. Even before the period of the alleged breaches the bakery was an automatic one. Mr. Hailev, trom the way the charges were trained, apparently conMilercd that the employment of a foreman was obligatory, but Mr. Woodward did all the supervising required in an automatic bakery. Jho Court reserved its decision.