HOLIDAY QUESTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19528, 10 July 1925, Page 10

HOLIDAY QUESTION.

ARBITRATION COURT AWARD. APPLICATION FOR INTERPRETATION. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 9. Application for interpretation of a clause in the dominion motor car and horse drivers’ award was made in the Arbitration Court, Tho point related to the payment to bo made when a half-holiday was worked in a week in which there were two full holidays. Mr Indor, for the Master Bakers Association, said that last year Christmas Day and Boxing Day fell on Thursday and Friday of the week, and the usual half-holiday was Wednesday. The question was whether drivers should be paid overtime or ordinary wages for working on the half-holiday. Counsel submitted that the half-holiday became merged in tho two holidays, and in such a week there was no half-holiday. The men come under the same definition as shop assistants. • For the union, Mr Davis maintained that the terms of the award were clear and definite. The provision relating to the two holidays was to get over the difficulty of permitting shop assistants to deliver goods on the afternoon of the half-holiday. There was no reasonable ground on which employers could refuse to pay overtime after 12.50 on the half-holiday. Decision was reserved.