WORK AND WAGES.
EMPLOYERS FINED
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, December 10
Alcock and Co,, billiard-table manufacturers, were to-day fined 20s for failing to pay an apprentice the wages stipulated in the Furniture Trades Award during the first six months of his third year’s working. The defendants had made the deduction to make up for six weeks the apprentice had been absent during Ids first two years, but the Magistrate decided that t: is was not permissible under the Act under which the indentures were drawn up. '
John Robert Burley, storekeeper, was lined £3 for employing an assistant at 30s weekly, instead of 3os. The defendant explained that he had supplied meals to the employee, making up the extra os.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 90, 11 December 1912, Page 5
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