ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1922, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

DAIRY INDUSTRY AWARD. A POINT DECIDED. By Telefrapb.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night.. The Arbitration Court gave its decision to-day in an application for an interpretation of the award relating to creameries, cheese and butter factories. The faets were that the Glaxo ComSany took over a dried milk 'factory at latangi in August, 1920, and was not bound by the award made two months later for dried milk factories. The firm ceased making dried milk in March and commenced making cheese. Overtime was not paid to the employees for time in exeess of 44 hours after April 1, as provided in the cheese factories award, and the .question was whether the change over brought the company within the provisions of the cheeae factorise award, and thus make it a subsequent party to one part of the award, whfle at the same time it was not bound by the award so far as it related to its principal business. The Court stated that section 80, sub-section 3 of the Act was designed only for the purpose of bringing m as a subsequent party any employer who commenced business in the industry to which the award applied while in force. The Court is of opinion that it had no jurisdiction to treat several branches of an industry covered by oee award as separate industries, so aa automatically to bind an employer not originally * bound who commenced operations in one of those branches in

which he was not engaged when the award was made. It thought an application to join the company as a party Should bo made In the ordinary way.