HOLIDAY BONUS TO BE PAID.

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22108, 2 June 1937, Page 10

HOLIDAY BONUS TO BE PAID.

COURT'S INTERPRETATION OF AWARD MOST FACTORY WORKERS AFFECTED (PEKS3 ASSOCIATION TELEGEAM.) WELLINGTON, June 1. His reserved decision in an important test case directly concerning 10,000 clothing trades employees throughout New Zealand, and also of importance to nearly all factory workers, was given by Mr J. H. Luxford. S.M., at Wellington, to-day. The question, he said, was whether employees were entitled to an additional day's pay for an award holiday that fell on a day on which the factory would ordinarily be closed. He decided they were. Because of this decision, workers undsr the clothing trades employees award will receive a day's pay for a holiday, additional to a week's wages they previously received. Mr Luxford held that the provisions of the act. so amended last year, conferred on the employees a holiday bonus, irrespective of the hours worked in any week previous to a holiday. He said also that the inspector of awards was entitled to succeed on another ground, The employees did no, complete 40 working hours during the week concerned, and could lawfully have been required to work on the morning of Saturday, December 26, if it had not been Boxing Day.