TREBLE PAY FOR HOLIDAY

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22081, 1 May 1937, Page 14

TREBLE PAY FOR HOLIDAY

FACTORY WORKERS AND ANZAC DAY

AUCKLAND INTERPRETATION '[THE PRESS Special Servlce.l AUCKLAND, April 30. It is now clear that treble pay will have to be paid for work performed last Monday by weekly workers in clothing factories who are covered by awards which contain provision that when Anzac Day falls on a Sunday the holiday shall be observed on the Monday. This interpretation is subject, of course, to those employers who consider that the-Arbitration Court has no power to fix an alternative holiday for a statutory Anzac Day being successfully prosecuted by the Department of Labour for failure to pay the holiday rates prescribed in the award. . Several employers, including , a firm affected by the dispute with its employees on the question, to-aay pSd double rates of pay for Monday, under the impression that their liability had thus been cleared. Under the new ruling of the department, however, the liability under the award for wages will not be removed until they pay an extra day s wages. . , The Labour Department now rules that where factories affected by the awards were open on Monday weekly workers, in addition to a lull week's wages, must be paid double rates for Monday. That ruling means, ■in.effect, treble rates for Monday, so that a woman worker employed'for less than five days a week, and entitled to £2 a week in the ordinary course, must this week be paid £2 16s. .