JUDGE CONSIDERS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1930, Page 3

JUDGE CONSIDERS

LEGAL POSITION A FAROE,

AtJt'KLANT), Feb. 11

Anot/ier case of an apprentice winning ..an appeal against his employer ‘forWvrbngful .dismissal, yet unable to "get “bis job back, heard , in the Arbitration Court this morning. A sinliiui - instance came under the jurisdiction of thfe Court in Hamilton last "ivfeek. ; The 'President of the Court '<Mr Justice Frazer) remarked then that the legal position was a ghastly farce, and repeated his comment this morning."

In to-day’s case the a carpenter’s apprentice of four years’ 'experience, said he had been, dismissed because his employers'regarded: him as temperamentally un’suited for’ employment with then!. The Judge, who found the,''story 1 true, allowed-the appeal, but said "lie ‘could do no / more for the young, ‘fellow. ■■

' to allow an appeal of this kind is really a farce, because the law,,, has no,, power to. .. . require jif V-the g ficeship w " , cbhtract7’ >i said " liis Honour ■“We, demand that an employer t£d£&|an Perhaps •it is as well,” his Honour and drpw the parallel, of a,,desertei' fromMihe matrimonial ordered to return borne;.' file <snly rembdV'-afi apprentice had, continued the Judge, seeiried to be a civil suit for damages. ...Ajp appeal in •fa.vour.ltf the boy might-possibly be of assistaitjee when he claimodtagainst his former employers. pHis flonour. advised the youth to consult?, his solicitors on,the questi&n', of future action. Appstjant hacl Iried everywhere ||b find r 0 employment. He had bsm however,;to obtain work Because no carpenter or builder to credit him with the four “years he had served for bis apprenticeship.