BONUS PAYMENTS
NOT PART OF ORDINARY
WAGES
ARBITRATION COURT DECISION PA WELLINGTON, Dec 17. A decision in favour of the employer has been given by the Court of Arbitration in a case of/importance under the Annual Holidays Act. 1944. which had been stated to the court for its opinion by Mr H. J. Thompson. S.M. The inspector of awards claimed from the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, Ltd., £lO as a penalty for an alleged breach of the Annual Holidays Act. He claimed that the company employed a worker under the New Zealand clothing trades employees’ award in a factory operating a bonus system and failed to pay him two weeks’ ordinary pay for his annual holiday. The court ruled that bonus payments were not part of the worker’s ordinary pay. The workers’ representative on the court, Mr F. C. Allerby, in a dissenting opinion, considered that such payments should be taken into account for the purpose of holiday pay under the Annual Holidays Act.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26958, 18 December 1948, Page 9
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