HOLIDAYS IN TARANAKI
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Court Favours Companies
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. NBW PLTMOUTH, Last Night, A decision on a point of industrial i law affecting dairy companies throughont the Dominion to an estimated ex- | tent of upwards of £30,000 annually in : the payment of wages to factory em- ; ployees, was made by Mr. W. H. Wood- ; ward, S.M., at the Stratford Court in an ; action brought by the inspector of fae- ; tories against the Cardiff Co-op, Dairy ; Company. The Magistrate upheld the Cardiff sCompany's cohtention that a elause in I the 1930 award providing for fhree ; holiday on full pay (or a pr«ti portionate period according to the ' length of employment) at the termina- i tion of an employee 's services> was not I nnder the provisions Of the Finance i Act, 1936, applicable to the agreeinent made in 1934 and still -in force. Had the decision been against the ! company the dairy industry would have i been obliged to pay £5000 to employees i in Taranalci alo.no this season. The ! •case was xegar-dcd as a test.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 7
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