ARBITRATION COURT

Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 8 March 1921, Page 45

ARBITRATION COURT

BONUSES GRANTED. AUCKLAND. February 21. Forty-six amendments to awards, granting the November bonus, have been filed by the Arbitration Court, which has adhered to the Wellington pronouncements of 3s for adult males, Is 6d for adult females, and Is for females under 21, and apprentices. In the case of the hairdressers’ employees the court, awarded Is bonus, bringing the total bonuses to 15s. An explanatory memorandum states that as the union did not apply for or receive the Alay, 1920, bonus, the court granted the total amount of the accumulated bonuses —15s. In granting a 3s bonus to theatre employees, the court states that the court, in its memorandum to the award made on November 8, 1920, indicated that it had included the bonuses to date, and at the hearing of the present application it was alleged that the workers covered by this award were entitled to receive a larger additional bonus than 3s weekly on the grounds that they had not received the former bonuses, and therefore should not have the amount of the present November bonuses reduced. The court, while of the opinion that no deduction should be made in respect c*f over-payment of past bonuses, in cases where one or more of ritoh bonuses were not applied for or paid, draws a clear lino of demarcation between such cases, and those in which workers, by an agreement, with the employers, without application to the court, (have received an amount equal to or creator than the bonuses that were overpaid