CAR AND HORSE DRIVERS' AWARD

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9979, 9 July 1925, Page 6

CAR AND HORSE DRIVERS' AWARD

INTERPRETATION WANTED

Electric Telegraph—lVess Association AUCKLAND. This Day.

Application for interpretation of the clause in the Dominion Motor Car and Horse Drivers’ Award was made in the Arbitration Court.

The point related to payment to be made when a half-holiday was worked in a week in which there were two lull holidays. Mr Inder, for the Master Baker’s Association, said that last year Christmas Day and Boxing Day fell on Thursday and Friday. The usual half-holiday was Wednesday. The question was whether drivers should he paid overtime or ordinary wages for working on a half holiday. Counsel submitted that the halfholiday became merged in the two holidays and in such a week there was no half-holiday. The men came under the definition of shop assistants.

For the. Union Mr Daves maintained that the terms of award were clear and definite. The provision relating to the two holidays was to get ovei 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 oxertime after 12.30 p.m. on the halfholiday. Decision was reserved.