RELIEF WORKERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 46, 4 December 1934, Page 3

RELIEF WORKERS

CONCESSIONS AT CHRISTMAS. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. Full details oi the concession%> be granted relief workers at Christmas were announced to-day by the ActingMinister of Employment, the Hon. J. A. Young, who said that two weeks' payment without work would apply in the weeks ending December i 29 and January 5. In order to receive this concession men must be registered as unemployed and actually in receipt or relief or eligible therefor during the week ending December 8. The concessions would apply to the following class of workers: Scheme 5 men employed on a rational basis, including bureau workers*and inquiry officers, receiving the ordinary ration of reliei for which they are eligible. Camp workers under control of State departments or local bodies, where the cost of food and/or wages is met wholly from unemployment lunds. Workers under the relief camp scheme. Subsidised gold prospectors "Generally speaking." said -U.) Young, "men are not eligible to receive, the two weeks' pay unless actually at work under normal conditions in' tlie period mentioned, though if loca bodies are prepared to pay the. usual rates without requiring work, the Unemployment Board will reimburse local bodies to the extent of the usua contribution. Amounts payable unclei No 5 scheme during the two weeks cessation <* work would be based on the current .allocation of funds those who- normally were eligible toi work in that period." . A further concession being g.anud would take the form of a specia Christmas relief cash payment ot an amount equivalent to one week s ( Snt measure of relief, and wouk mvolve an expenditure of >^> ul j Generally, the concession applied to all the above-mentioned classes, also to men in receipt of sustenance without vol provided they had been m £ cei to f relief or thirteen, weeks in tlic P<^ "SSS -rkers, gold prospectors ; »d others who had been draftc i *™* from their homes, might same fare concession^to.^J^*^ to visit home as weic vrar.