COMPENSATION CASE
AGREEMENT ON A POINT By Telegraph Press Association WELLINGTON, March 10 During the hearing of a claim for compensation by a watersider against the Wellington Harbour Board in the Arbitration Court to-day, counsel agreed that for the purposes of compensation the watersiders’ week was 44 hours. Increased pay is given if work is done on Saturday mornings. Judge O'Regan, agreeing, said that watersiders now had a 40-hour week, and it had evidently been thought that in order tb arrive at the average weekly earnings for the purpose of the Workers’ Compensation Act, a watersider’s hourly rate for forty hours should be used, and two-thirds of the result taken, but it was now agreed that work done during Saturday forenoon was not overtime, and hence the hourly wage must still be multiplied by 44.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20983, 11 March 1938, Page 7
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135COMPENSATION CASE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20983, 11 March 1938, Page 7
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