EMPLOYEES PROSECUTED
BREACHES OP AWARD
LEFT WITHOUT NOTICE
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day.
It was unusual for the Labour Department to take action against the employees for beaches of awards, remarked- Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday during the ihearing of a case against two servants for a breach of the Wellington private hotel employees’ award. A penalty of £2 was claimed against Mildred Gillingham and Lorna Fahey on the ground that they left their employer on September 28 last without notice. They did not appear. The inspector of awards, Mr. J. R. Hanlon, said the girls had been paid in advance, and when they had walked out their employer had been unable to deduct two days’ pay in lieu of notice.
Evidence was given by 'the girls’ employer that she had given Gillingham her holidays a month early. She observed the 40-hour week, although she might have employed them for 44. It was no't true that the girls had to .work long hours, as she employed a staff of seven to attend to 19 guests.
The magistrate imposed a fine of £2 in each case.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19550, 4 February 1938, Page 5
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