PAYMENT FOR HOLIDAYS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 415, 23 April 1937, Page 5

PAYMENT FOR HOLIDAYS.

DAIRY FACTORY WAGES Decision in Favour of Cardiff Dairy Company. The hearing of the action brought by the district Inspector of Factories, New Plymouth, against the Cardiff Co-operative Dairy Factory Company, claiming £lO as penalty for breach of the Taranaki Creameries, Cheese and Butter Factories’ Employees Industrial Agreement was concluded in the Straitford Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The Magistrate, Mr W. H. Woodward upheld the Cardiff company’s contention that a clause in the 1930 award prc'.llding for three weeks’ holiday on full pay, or a proportionate period according to length of employmtmt, at the termination of an employee’s service was not, under the provisions of the Finance Act (1936), applicable to the agreement made in 1934 and Still in force. 'Had the decision, which

is open to appeal, been agiainst the defendant company the dairying industry would have been obliged to pay to employees on the operations of the 1936-37 season sums in holiday pay estimated at £5OOO for Tartanaki companies alone.