By contract in the respondents’ colliery, fillers, i.e., drawers, received their wages from the colliers with whom they worked. The respondents maintained that the appellant, a filler, was employed and paid by the collier with whom he worked and that they were not responsible for the fact that one week his wage was below the minimum.
Held that the obligation imposed by the Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912 obtained irrespective of who actually paid the wages, and that in fact the appellant was employed by the respondents and entitled to demand from them the balance between the wage paid and the minimum rate.
Lord Chancellor (Buckmaster), Lords Atkinson, Shaw, Parker, and Sumner
[1916] UKHL 815, 53 SLR 815
Bailii
Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912
England and Wales
Employment
Updated: 17 January 2022; Ref: scu.630666