ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 10 December 1907, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

INTERPRETATION OF AX AWARD. Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The following interpretation lias lieen given by the Arbitration Court in the , typographical award dated Otli August. IKo7:—iimployers shall nut lie hound to pay for holidays, but, subject to clause 3, no deduction shall be made from the weekly wage except for time lost by a worker through his own default. The (|i««tion was asked, if a compositor was willing to work on one or any of the holidays specified ill clause (i, and an establishment closed against him, was such a compositor or apprentice entitled to be paid his week's wages'without a proportionate deduction of such lost time. The answer was to the effect that an apprentice was entitled to his weekly wage without deduction. A compositor I was not entitled to be paid for any holiday mentioned in the award, unless he i* required by his employer to work and does work on such a holiday. The fact that the compositor is willing to work on any sueli holiday does not make any difference in the matter so far as holidays are concerned. Employers are bound to pay compositors only for work done and not for readiness to work.