ALLEGED BREACH OF AWARD
Point For Court To Decide
The Court of Arbitration was requested yesterday to decide whether R. and E. Tingey Co., Ltd., paint, glass and wallpaper merchants, Wellington, were wholesalers within the meaning of the storemen and packers’ award. The'company was proceeded against by the Inspector of Factories for an alleged breach of the award In employing men far 44 Hours a week and not paying overtime for four hours. It was submitted for the defence that Tingey and Co. was substantially a retail business, two-thirds of the work being retail. The main portion of a storeman’s work was repacking for branches and packing for resellers. Because that was mainly retail business it was contended that the workers were bound by the shop assistants’ award, which provided for a 44-hour week.
The Court reserved its decision. The Inspector of Factories advised that he was not seeking a penalty, but a decision to clarify the position.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 8
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158ALLEGED BREACH OF AWARD Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 8
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