CO-OPERATIVE LABOURERS
COMPENSATION EIGHTS. In a judgment of the Arbitration Court in a compensation ca6e, given recently at Dunedin, it was ruled that co-operative workers in tho employ of the Crown occupied the position of contractors, -and, therefore, possessed no rights of compensation for accidents under the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, 1908. . ; This having • been, brought under the notice of the Minister of Labour by Mr D. McLuren, the Hon. J. A. Millar replied:—This case gives rise to an. unusual difficulty, inasmuch as deceased worker -Lawless was an employee as driver of a sub-contractor, who, in turn, had taken his sub-contiMct from the co-operative party. Seeing that the whole of the co-operative workers come almost entirely under the jurisdiction of the. Public Works Department, I will confer with, the Minister of Public Works upon the point raised.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6996, 9 December 1909, Page 8
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