AWARD INTERPRETED
WAGES OF SLAUGHTERMEN Decision was announced by tho Arbitration Court yesterday in an application by the inspector of awards for an interpretation of a clause in the New Zealand (except Wostland) freezing workers' award. The Court in a majority judgment held that an employer could include in the minimum average wage of a slaughterhouse assistant the earnings of such an employee at work other than that of a slaughterhouse assistant. In n dissenting opinion, the workers representative, Mr. A. L. Monteith, s.'iid the clause in question only covered slaughterhouse assistants and had no relation to slaughtermen. The minimuni applied only to slaughterhouse assistants and earnings of slaughtermen should not be included.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23375, 17 June 1939, Page 18
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113AWARD INTERPRETED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23375, 17 June 1939, Page 18
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