RELIEF MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 269, 13 November 1935, Page 8

RELIEF MEN.

HOLIDAYS ON PAY.

SPECIAL BONUS FOR SOME. CONCESSIONS ANNOUNCED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Minister of Employment, JVlr. Smith, ~ announced to-day that the Unemployment Board had decided that all workers employed under the following schemes would be eligible for two weeks' holiday on full pay in respect of the weeks ending December 28 and January 4:— (1) Scheme 5 workers employed on a rationed basis, i.e., less than 40 hours a week. (2) Gold prospectors, including men employed on developmental work other than those employed full time at standard rates of pay. (3) Clerical workers employed in the bureaux of local body offices, relief depots, etc. (4) Workers employed under schemes 4C and 4D {other than future occupiers under schcme 4C). ' : :

(5) Camp workers and other men employed by State Departments and lo.cal •authorities other than , those employed full time at standard rates of pay. V 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 for three statutory holidays— Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day—and will be given the opportunity of working on the remaining days. ° Travelling Concessions. In addition to the holiday concessions of pay without work for each of the two weeks mentioned, all camp workers desiring to visit their homes during the period the cainps .. are closed, with the exception of those men who have been drafted to full-time standard-rate camps prior to October 1, will be eligible for transport concessions as follow:" (a) Second-class return rail tickets from the nearest railway station to their home town at one-quarter of the ordinary rates; (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, witli the exception of those employed for full time at standard rates of pay and those covered by clause 3 above who are in receipt of more than £2 10/ a week in the case of a married man and £1 17/G a week in the caso 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 had been in receipt of relief under one of the Unemployment Board's schemes for a period or periods of not less than 13 weeks during the preceding twelve months.