RELIEF WORKERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 28, 14 November 1935, Page 7

RELIEF WORKERS

THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. TWO WEEKS 0N FULL PAY. (Per Press Association.) ‘ WELLINGTONfi'November 13. p The Minister for Employment (the Hon. S. G. Smith) announced to—day that the Unemployment Board had decided that all workers employed under the foll‘owing‘schemes’ would be eligible for two weeks’ holiday on “full pay in the weeks ending December 28 and January 4: ‘ (1') (Scheme Nb. 5 worker'ers employed on a rationed basis (less than 40 hours a week). . . ' (2) Gold. prospectors, including men employed on developmental Work, other than. those employed on full time at standard rates‘ot' pay. its) Clerical 'workers employed in _bureaux, local body oflices‘, relief depots, etc. . r ' (4) , Workers employed under schemes .40 and '4d (other than future Occupiers under Scheme 4c). . _ (5) Camp workers and other men employed by State departments and heal authorities other than those employed on full time at} standard rates of pay. \ . l . Where men are employed by local authorities for full time at standard rates of pay, the board will provide the usual wages contribution, provided the local authority meets its proportion of the wages cost. Camp workers and other men employed full time at standard rates of pay by State departments will be paid fer three statutOry holidays (Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day) and be given the opportunity of Working on the remaining days. ' . _ Workers in; Camps. '- ' In. addition to the holiday concession to pay without work for each oi the two weeks mentioned, all camp workers desiring to yisit their homes during the period the camps are close, except those men who have been drafted to full-time standard-rate camps before October 1, will be eligible for. transport concession as follows: (a) Second—class return rail tickets from. the nearest railway station to home town at one-quarter of the ordinary rates 3 (b) half the return cost of reasonable transport where rail tranSport is not available. . The board has also decided that all men in receipt of sustenance without ,work and all of the above workers, with the exception of those employed 'forifull time at standard rates of pay, and‘those covered by Clause 3 who are in receipt of more than '£2 10s a week in the case‘of married men and 37s 6d .a week in the case of single men, will be eligible for a special Christmas bonus equal to a. week’s pay, provided they were in receipt of relief during the week“ ending December 7, and have been in [receipt of relief under one of the Unemployment Board schemes for a period or periods of not 1833 than 13 weeks during the preceding 12 months.