BOOT FACTORIES CLOSING
DISMISSED MEN TO BE PAID CESSATION FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. ARBITRATION COURT’S DECISION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Judgment was given in the Arbitration Court yesterday in a case brought on behalf of boot operatives under their award. Owing to slackness of. trade, boot factories instead of closing for the usual ten days at Christmas decided to close for several weeks and the employers served to the operatives notice of dismissal. The question for the court was whether such dismissed operatives were entitled to be paid wages for the time the factories were closed. The court decided that in the ciicunistance the operatives were entitled to be paid such wages. . It was not to be understood, said Mr. Justice Frazer, that the awaid piohibited a definite dismissal and subsequent re-engagement of an employee. What was necessary and would satisfy the court of the completeness of a dismissal in any particular case could be decided if and when the necessity arose.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1931, Page 7
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