Wagoner v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 215 Pa. 379
• 64 A. 557
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 804

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities- — Contract of employment — Wages—Estoppel.</p> <p>An ordinance of a city providing for the employment of workmen at per diem wages will not prevent the city, or any of its departments from discontinuing the payment of a full day’s wages for a half day’s work.</p> <p>Where a city has discontinued the practice of paying workmen a full day’s wages for Saturday half holidays, as provided by an ordinance, the workmen are estopped from complaining of such reduction where it appears that they accepted payment of the reduced rate of wages every two weeks for more than two years, signed the pay roll in receipt of these wages, without protest at the time, and without objection made to the department by which they were employed.</p>