ARBITRATION COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1922, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

THE TYPOGRAPHICAL AWARD INTERPRETATION OF CLAUSE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Arbitration Court has filed an interpretation of a clause in the Northern, Taranaki. Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson. Westland, Canterbury, Otago and Southland typographical award. The clause states that any employee required to work on Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, or Good Friday shall be paid double rates, and if required to work on Labour Day or any other holiday observed by offices in this section time and a half. In the case of a morning newspaper the evening preceding each of these holidays shall be reckoned a holiday and by arrangement between the majority of the companionship and the employer the evening of any of these holidays may be observed as the holiday. For night workers Sunday shall mean from noon on Saturday till noon on Sunday. A question laid before the Court by the Auckland Union is: Are workers who work on Sunday entitled to three times the ordinary pay or to double pay only The Court states it is of opinion that the question is answered in the interpretation given by the Court last August. Sunday is not ordinarily a working day and work done on that day is to be paid for at double rates. That is to say that two days’ wages are to be paid in addition to the ordinary weekly wage. The Court finished taking evidence in the watersiders’ dispute to-day, the evidence relating to small coastal ports. The Auckland sessions have concluded and the Court has left for Dunedin.