EMPLOYEES’ APPEAL

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22152, 25 September 1943, Page 4

EMPLOYEES’ APPEAL

MINIMUM WAGE DISPUTE AUCKLAND, Saturday j The extent, if any, to which an employer might apply money eap-md as overI v inie under a contract or service towaiT his obligation to pay the minimum wage of £5 lus was involved in an appeal heard by Mr Justice Lallan at Auckland yesterday. The appeal was against an interim 1 judgment delivered by Mr J. H. I.uxrord, ; S.M., in which he dLmlssed a claim brought by a freezing works employee j *vho sought recovery of the difference bo tween the amount actually received by : him lor work done during ordinary working hours in each week and the weekly | minimum of £5 lus. The magistrate said that In his opinion a clause in the minimum wage order supei>eded the deflnition or overtime in the award. counsel for the respondent company said that with the number or employees rising to 25U0 in the busy season, even ‘one week’s minimum wage on the basis ejaimed would involve additional payment? ,of over £12,000 and the company would 1 have received nothing in return, j Decision was reserved.