DRIVERS' PICNIC DAY
AN APPEAL DISMISSED Tho Arbitration Court, presided over by Mr. Justice Tyndall, lias dismissed the employers' appeal against a decision of Mr. J. A. Gilmour, S.M., as chairman of a disputes committee, regarding the annual picnic day to be observed under the motor and horsedrivers' award. The magistrate decided that the workers were now entitled under the existing award to a full day's holiday in place of the half-day to which they Ave 10 previously entitled under the expired award, and he was of opinion that less dislocation would be involved by observing the picnic day 011 tho same day as the waterside workers' picnic day. Ho therefore decided that picnic day should lie observed 011 that day. The Court rejected the five grounds on which the employers challenged this decision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23770, 25 September 1940, Page 13
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