PAYMENT OF WAGES FOR HOLIDAYS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22112, 7 June 1937, Page 10

PAYMENT OF WAGES FOR HOLIDAYS

EMPLOYERS ASKED TO IGNORE JUDGMENT (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, June 6. It is the intention of the New Zealand Employers' Federation to undertake the defence of any employers who are prosecuted as a result of the judgment of Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the case on the holiday bonus in Wellington recently, in which the Magistrate ruled that clothing trade employees, who had been paid their wages in full for a working week, were entitled to payment for a prescribed holiday under the Factories Act on which ordinarily they would not have worked. A statement to this effect was made by Mr J. S. Dawes, president of the Auckland Employers' Association, who said the assistant-secre-tary had been instructed to inform members of the decision. Mr Dawes said that an appeal against the Magistrate's judgment in the case brought in Wellington, and which affects employers in other trades under the Factories Act, would be lodged in due course. Employers are £0 be asked, in the meantime, to ignore Mr Luxford's judgment so far as it concerns the payment of the extra day's wages for last Boxing Day.