PUBLIC SERVANTS’ HOLIDAYS
• . ———. SCALE ANNOUNCED FORTY-HOUR WORKING WEEK (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, January 8. Regulations issued under the Public , Service Act provide for the working of a 40-hour week. They also provide that every officer in the Public Service and every temporary employee, if circumstances should arise necessitating the retention of such 1 employee in the service for more than a year, may be granted by the permanent head leave of absence for recreation on the following scale:— (a) When an officer has served for 10 years or upwards, not exceeding three weeks in each year. (b) When an officer has served less than 10 years, not exceeding two weeks in each year. (c) Officers who generally work more than six days a week, not exceeding four weeks in each year, to be taken in two periods of two weeks each if desired. The granting of such leave is subject to the satisfactory behaviour of the officer, and to his duties having been satisfactorily, performed.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21986, 9 January 1937, Page 12
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