THE RECENT BONUS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1921, Page 5

THE RECENT BONUS.

AMENDMENTS TO THE AWARD. SPECIAL CASES CONSIDERED. By Telegraph —Press Assn.—Copyright. Auckland, Last Night. Forty-six* amendments to awards granting the November bonus have been filed by the Arbitration Court, which has adhered to the Wellington pronouncement of 3s for adult males, Is fid for adult females, anti Is for females under 2.1 and apprentices. In the case of hairdressers’ employees the court awarded Ils bonus, bringing the total bonus to 15s. An explanatory memorandum states that as the union did not apply for or receive the May, 1920, bonus, the Court granted the total amount of the accumulated bonuses, namely 15s. In granting the 3s bonus to theatre employees the Court states that the Court, in its memorandum to the award, made in November of 1920, indicated that it had included the bonuses to date. At the hearing of the present application it was alleged the workers covered by this award were entitled to receive a larger additional bonus than 3s weekly, on the ground that they had not received the former bonuses, and therefore should not have the amount of the present November bonus reduced. The Court, while of opinion that no deduction should be made in respect of the over-payment of past bonuses in cases where one or more of such bonuses were not applied for or paid, draws a clear line of demarcation between such cases and those in which workers, bv agreement with their employers, and without application to the Court, have received an amount equal to or greater than the bonuses that were over-paid.