PAYING TWO POUNDS AN HOUR

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 345, 28 January 1937, Page 6

PAYING TWO POUNDS AN HOUR

DEPARTMENT’S CLAIM CASUAL EMPLOYMENT. Magistrate Dismisses Case In Christchurch. Press Association —Copyright. Christchurch, Last Night. Claiming under the Shops and Offices Act and its amendments that an employer was compelled to pay £2 to a casual employee for any work in any one week, the Labour Department brought an action against W. J. Kingsland, hairdresser, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. The information was dismissed by Mr. E. C. Lewey, but the officer in charge of the Labour Department, Mr. R. T. Bailey, asked that surety be fixed for appeal. Surety was fixed at £lO 10s. The proposition set up by the department was that even if a casual worker was employed for one hour in any one week he must he paid £2. The prosecutions were on the same basis as under the previous Act, and nothing had been woven into the amending Act to justify the present interpretation of it. He pointed out that the award provided for the payment of causual workers at 2s 6d an hour, with a minimum of three hours. A worker employed for three days a. week was to be deemed a weekly hand.