DAISY FACTORIES

Southland Times, Issue 19516, 16 May 1922, Page 5

DAISY FACTORIES

INTERPRETATION OF AWARD. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 15. The Arbitration Court gave its decision in an application for an interpretation of the award relating to creameries and cheese and butter factories. The facts were that the Glaxo Company took over a dried milk factory at Matangi in August, 1920, and was not bound by the award made two months later for dried milk factories. The firm ceased making dried milk in March and commenced making cheese. Overtime was not paid to the employees for time in excess of 44 hours after April 1, as provided in the cheese factories award. The question was whether the change over brought the company within th® provisions of the cheese factory award, and thus made it subsequent party to one part of the award, while at the same time it was not bound by the award so far as it related to its principal business. The Court stated that section 90 subsection 3 of the Act was designed only for the purpose of bringing in as a subsequent party any employer who commenced business in an industry to which the award applied while it was in force. The Court was of opinion that it had not jurisdiction to treat several branches of an industry covered by one award as separate industries so as to automatically bind an employer who was not originally bound who commenced operations in one of those branches in which he was pot engaged when the award was made. It thought an application to join the company as a party should be made in the ordinary way.