BREACH OF AWARD
OVERTIME NOT PAID JUDGMENT IN TEST CASE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Saturday. In wh?U was described as a test, case, for a decision rather than a penalty, the Court of Arbitration has decided that R. and E. Tingey and Company, Ltd., inadvertently committed two breaches of an award by employing two storemen and packers for 4 4 hours and failing to pay overtime for the hours in excess of 40. The Court held that the contention that the company's business was onethird wholesale and two-thirds retail would not help if the men were in fact substantially employed in connection with the wholesale part of the busi-
After reviewing the nature of the business and classifying the sales, the Court, said it was clear that the, work of the men was substantially wholesale, and the greater part of their time was occupied in dealing with goods included in wholesale sales. No penalty was imposed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20822, 5 June 1939, Page 9
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156BREACH OF AWARD Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20822, 5 June 1939, Page 9
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