FLAXMILL EMPLOYEES’ AWARD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 30 November 1907, Page 3

FLAXMILL EMPLOYEES’ AWARD.

At the request of the New Zealand Flaxmillers’ Association, the local Inspector of Awards aplied to the Arbitration Court for an interpretation of the overtime clause.

The following is the clause upon which the application was based : “Clause 2 —Any time worked in any one week in extension of the hours prescribed in 'danse 1 hereof shall be paid for at the rate of time and a quarter for the first three hours, and time and a-half for all further time until the usual time for commencing work.” The question set the Court to answer was : 1 ‘ Must each day stand by itself, or is all overtime worked to be added together at the end of each week and to be paid for at time and a-quarter for the first three hours .and time and a-half for ail further time ?”

The answer given by the Arbitration Court is as ' follows : ‘ ‘ Under the award overtime is only to be paid when the hours of work for the week exceed 48. The hours of work for each day may be regulated by the employer subject to the provisions of section 18 of ‘The Factories Act, 1901.’ If the hours in any one day are extended beyond those mentioned in that section, then the provisions of section 22 of the Act would apply, and overtime would be payable under that section, but overtime is not payable under the award until more than 48 hours have been worked in any one week.”