SATURDAY WORK
RIGHT OF ADDITIONAL WAGES AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT (Per United Press Association) NELSON, Feb. 12. "Although my mind is not free from doubt, I concluded that the regulations gazetted on August 13 modifying sections 14 and 15 of the Factories Amendment Act do not take away from gasworks employees the right to additional wages when required to work o- the Saturday half-holiday," said the magistrate (Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M.) in an important judgment, giving his decision for the department in a case against the Nelson City,, Council of employing a gasworks stoker on Saturday afternoon and not paying the extra rate. The action was brought to test the effect of the regulation which modified the section by reducing the rate of additional wages for whole holidays and Sundays from double to time and a-half. The section as regards half-holidays was not affected. The charge was of reducing wages because of the reduction in the working hours. The. magistrate ruled that the new rates must be worked on the basis of 48 hours, as the extra hours were overtime, though not paid for.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23114, 13 February 1937, Page 19
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