CAKE SHOP SHORTAGES
GIRLS MADE TO PAY CENSURE IN CITY COURT (Per Press Association.) " CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Outspoken comment on the practice of George Henry Tnigel, managing director of Newmarket Limited, a, cake shop in the city, in making shop assistants make lip stock and cash shortages out of wages, was expressed by the magistrate, All*, vj. 1). I.ewey, in the court to-day, when six charges wore preferred by tho Labour Depart incut, against Taigel.
The magistrate said it was not. liis duty to consider the- reprehonsibility, or otherwise, of Taigel s system, but it. was bad and pernicious. .If girls did not make good the. shortages, they knew they would bo sacked. Much as lie disliked tho system, he could not find that these payments constituted premiums and the information would be dismissed. ‘‘There must he some oilier way in which you can recover this money for the girls,” he said to the Labour Department inspector who prosecuted. Tho charges consisted of three, of failing to pay the proscribed wages, and three of accepting premiums.. In ovulenre, it was staled that Taigel had a key to the shop as well as the manageress. lie denied that, he took stock from the shop and then charged the girls with shortages. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 13
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210CAKE SHOP SHORTAGES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 13
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