TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11222, 30 May 1922, Page 6

TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD

INTERPRETATION OF HOLIDAY CLAUSE. PEB I’EESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, May 29. The Arbitration Court filed an interpretation of the clause in Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland typographical award. The clause states that any employee required to work on Sunday, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, or Good Friday shall be paid double rates, and if required to work on Labour Day or any other holiday observed by an office in this section, time and a half. In the case of a morning newspaper the evening preceding each of these holidays shall be reckoned a holiday. By arrangement between the majority of the companionship and an employer, the evening of jiny of these holidays may be observed as the holiday for night workers. Sunday shall mean from noon on Saturday till noon on Sunday. The question laid before the court by the Auckland Union is: “Are workers who work on Sunday entitled to three times the ordinary rate of pay or to double pay only.” The court states that it is of opinion that the question is answered in the interpretation given by the court last August. Sunday is not an ordinarily working day, and work done on that dav is to be paid for at double rates. That is to say, two days’ wages are to be paid in addition to the ordinary weekly wage.