AWARDS AMENDED

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 5

AWARDS AMENDED

BONUS GRANTED TO AUCKLAND UNIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, February 21. Forty-six amendments to awards, granting the November bonus, have beeq filed by the Arbitration Court, which has adhered to its Wellington pronouncement of 3s. for adult males, Is. 6d. for adult females, and Is. for females under 21 and apprentices. In the case of hairdresssrs’ employees, the Court awarded an Us. bonus, bringing the total bonuses to Jss. An explanatory memorandum states that as the union did not apply for or receive the May, 1920, bonus, the Court has granted the total amount of the accumulated bonuses, namely, 15s. In .granting a 3s. bonus to theatre employees, the Court slates: “The Court in its memorandum to the award made on November 8, 1920, indicated that it had included the bonuses to date, and at the hearing of the present application it was alleged that the workers covered by this award were entitled to receive a larger additional bonus than 3s. weekly on tho ground that they had not received the former bonuses, and therefore should not have the amount of the present November bonus reduced. The Court, while of opinion that no deduction should be made in respect of over-payment of past bonuses in cases where one or more of such bonuses were not applied for or paid, draws a clear line of demarcation 'between such cases. and those in which workers, bv agreement with the employers and’without application to the Court, have received an amount equal to or greater than the bonuses that were overpaid.”