ARBITRATION COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9176, 27 August 1908, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

BREACHES OF AWARD.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 26. At the Arbitration Court, to-day, J Thomson, Lewis and Co., aerated water manufacturer?, were charged with paying less than the award rate to two machine bottlers. Mr Lewis stated that just after the -.award was announced he found there was no provision to teach men machine bottling. One of the men fell sick and he had to teach a man to do the work. The Court decide.! simply to record a breach in the case. Humphries Bros, were cited for a breach of the award in the plasterers' dispute, in having employed a nonunionist plasterer. The Court described the case as trivial, and simply recorded a breach. J. Rod, butcher, was cited for employing Edgar Cornelius at less than the aw ard rate. Mr Rod said that Cornelius was not competent to earn the full rate. The Court held that the breach had been committed deliberately. A fine of £5 was imposed on the respondent and against Cornelius a breach was recorded. A similar case was that against Mr McManus for paying less than the award rate to his cook and his waitress, Maggie Whitford and Emily Hyland,respectively. The respondent, who is licensee of the Railway Hotel, had admitted the facts, hut had refused to pay the arrears. Neither of the other res) o ulents (the cook ard the waitress) kn;-?\v what the award rate was. The rest ondent wa3 fined £5 in respect of the cases of the two employees. Charles H. Williams, hotelkeeper, was fined £2 for employing John Stockbridge at less than the award rate of pay. Stockbridge was fined 10s. The Levin Meat and Cold Storage Company was fined £2 for employing Charles Bolton at less than the award rate. Bolton was fined 10s. The Court was asked to decide whether the employment of a waiter for the period of one week at 30s was a breach of the casual labour clause of the award, which fixes the wages of casual labourers at 10s a day for i the first three days, but after that ! at ordinary wages. The Court held ! that a weekly contract was not casual labour.

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