ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 139, 7 December 1911, Page 2

ARBITRATION COURT.

A SEASONABLE SUGGESTION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. In adding parties to the painters' award to-day, the Arbitration Court appended the following memorandum: Where nn award is made in connection with a trade or industry, the parties to the award should he limited as far as possible to employers who are engaged in that particular trade or industry. Employers named in this order are not carrying on business as master printers, they therefore should not he added as ordinary parties to the award. They, however, are doing work from time to time that comes within the scope of the award, and are employing journeymen painters. In these circumstances the proper course to adopt, in the opinion of the Court, is to add them as parties to the award so as to bind them to pay the wages fixed by the award, and also to pay for overtime and for workdone on holidays according to the provisions of the award, but they should not be bound by the other provisions of the award, which prima facie are applicable only to employers in business as master painters. The Court adopted the same course with regard to builders and other similar employers, when dealing with the boilermakers' dispute, in September last. The present cases are to be treated as setting the practice of the Court with regard to all similar cases.