Is there any case law in which a piece is paid by the piece when all work is booked up at three o’s a week?

Saskatchewan, Canada


The following excerpt is from Johnston v. MacCallum, 1939 CanLII 155 (SK QB):

In Warburton v. Heywood or Heyworth (1880) 6 Q.B.D. 1, 50 L.J.Q.B. 137, the appellant, a woman weaver, employed at a mill, was paid by the piece, and all work done was booked up at three o’clock on the Wednesday afternoon of each week, and paid for on the following Saturday, all work booked after three o’clock on the Wednesday afternoon being carried forward to the following week.

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