THE BAKERY TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1921, Page 5

THE BAKERY TRADE.

A MAGISTERIAL JUDGMENT. By Telegraph. Association Auckland, Last Night. 1 Mr. Bundle, S.M., gave judgment in the Magistrate’s Court in a ease in which the Bakers’ and Pastrycooks’ Union claimed a £lO penalty from Walter Buchanan, Ltd., for alleged breach of the award. The company employed a number of men to work from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. They were paid overtime from 11 p.m. till 3 a.m., but from the latter time to 7 a.m., or such hour as they knocked off, they were paid for the time actually worked. The company’s manager stated that the weekly wage was paid less deduction for short hours worked.

Mr. Bundle said that what had been done was that the men were paid so much per hour. The company had always carried on night baking, and until July, 1221, the men worked on till 9 a.m. and were paid a weekly wage, plus overtime. On July 15 a formal request by the workers was handed to the company that the management allow them to work shorter hours and accept payment only for tne time worked. Mr. Bundle said the award prescribed a weekly wkge, and had Deen in force since 1912. Overtime was, in the case of bakeries, usually for night baking. Mr. Bundle held this to be a breach of the award, and, in fixing the penalty at £4, costs £2 12s, took into consideration the fact that the employer employed two extra men to complete the work of the men «n short time, and thus had no direct financial saving. Mr. Bundle said he proposed to fix a penalty in respect to the employees at £2 each, but would hold it over pending an appeal. Security for appeal was fixed at £lO 10s.