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Leave to appeal was granted based on the question of whether the minimum wage is payable for all of a worker’s agreed contracted hours of work, in the absence of sickness, default or accident; or whether it was lawful to make deductions from wages for lost time not worked at the employer’s direction. On March 23, the day the Covid-19 level 4 lockdown was announced, the workers were employed by Gate on the minimum wage for a minimum 40-hour week. After the company partly shut down its operations during the lockdown, Gate did not need some employees to work. Gate agreed to pay those employees 80 per cent of their normal wages, provided it got the wage subsidy, which it did receive.
The case was heard by Chief Judge Christina Inglis, Judge Joanna Holden and Judge Kathryn Beck. At the hearing on October 13, the company’s lawyer, Emma Butcher, said it was a simple matter of whether the Minimum Wage Act applied to the payment of employees who were not working. “This is not a case about exploitation of workers,” Butcher said. “The Minimum Wage Act has no application to these facts and as such the determination is incorrect and should be overturned.” Following the alert level 4 lockdown in March, Gate Gourmet was deemed an essential service but it told its employees it would need to partially shut down operations.
LEESBURG Bikers escorted Santa and Mrs. Claus in style to deliver gifts to the Carpenter’s House For Children in Leesburg on Sunday.
Members of MFC (Military, Firefighter and Cops) Motorcycle Club and the CVMA (Combat Vets Motorcycle Association) came together to make sure the special delivery made it in time.
“A couple motorcycle groups in town wanted to help provide the children with presents this year,” Joseph Mattiace, president of the Carpenter’s House for Children, said. “Today they are going to sprinkle a little Christmas to them. I was appointed about a week ago and we’ve really been trying to help these kids, like getting them a new oven and making sure they all have presents for Christmas.”