PAYMENT FOR HOLIDAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23364, 2 December 1937, Page 12

PAYMENT FOR HOLIDAY

ADDITIONAL TO WEEK’S WAGES AN IMPORTANT RULING DECISION OF ARBITRATION COURT (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 1. In a judgment delivered to-day by Mr Justice O’Regan, the Arbitration Court upholds the decision of the Wellington magistrate, Mr J H Luxford, who ruled that employees who had been paid their wages in ful 1 for a working week were entitled to an extra day’s pay for an award holiday which fell on a day when the factory would normally have been closed. The Labour Department had proceeded against Cathie and Sons, Ltd., for failing to pay an employee for Boxing Day last year, a Saturday, at the same rate as for an ordinary working day It was claimed that the company had committed a breach of the northern (females only) clothing trades award. The magistrate ordered the company to pay costs. The firm appealed against the decision. The magistrate’s ruling was that an employee was entitled to the payment of wages on Boxing Day in spite of the fact that he had been paid in full tor the week ended Boxing Day. Further, 40 hours’ work had not been completed during the week in question, and the employer could lawfully have required work on Saturday morning had it not been Boxing Day.