HOLIDAYS WITH PAY
Progress Of British Plan (British Official Wireless.) (Received March 15, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, March 14. Replying to a House of Commons question on Thursday the Minister cf Labour, Mr. Brown, disclosed that, since the Holidays With Pay Act had come into operation in July, 1938, orders requiring employers to provide paid holidays had been issued in respect of 49 trade boards covering more than 1,000,000 people. Concerning agriculture, orders had been issued for all areas except Monmouthshire. These orders covered some 600,000 people. The estimated number of people now covered by. collective agreements providing for holidays with pay is about 4,500,000.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 11
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104HOLIDAYS WITH PAY Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 11
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