ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

COOKS' AND .WAITERS' AWARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. 'Wellington. February 10. The ['resilient of the Arbitration Court in the emirsu of u written judgment has rnleil that, a man employed solely us a mess-room waiter is not a waiter within the meaning of the cooks' and waiters' award.

TflK TYPOGRAPHICAL AWATti). Wellington, February I!i. "Mr. .Justice Sim. has given an interpretation to the Typographical award respecting liuoty|Kvs in the Wellington city olliees, in which he makes it clear that a piece-worker is entitled to be paid for work done on the holidays simply at lire extra rate prescribed in the award to meet such occasions, and is not receive in addition the extra day's pay allowed to weekly wage operators. "Those engaged for a <lelini4t term" are the words of the interpretation, "on certain specified holidays." This means that piece-workers who worked on Labour J)ay and received 4»/.d ]K*r thousand ens received all they were cn* titled to under the award.

THE P-ITCHKItS' AWAHI). Dunedin. Last Night, hi the Arbitration Court to-day, Mr. .Justice Sim delivered au interpretation of the butchers' award as follows:—An employer may, if he pleases, employ a youth to do work as a journeyman, provided be pays journeyman's wages. Jf a. youth 'is thus employed the employer is entitled to count him as a man in computing the proportion of boys to journeymen.