PAID HOLIDAYS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 260, 31 July 1944, Page 4

PAID HOLIDAYS

Act To Operate From Tomorrow The Annual Holidays Act, which provides an annual holiday of two weeks on full pay for all workers not already entitled to paid holidays under industrial awards and agreements or contracts _ Oi employment, will come into operation tomorrow. Till this date no holiday or holiday pay can be claimed under it. and the Act has no application to a worker whose employment is terminated before tomorrow. The Act is not limited to workers employed in commercial undertakings, but applies equally to all workers, including domestic servants and gardeners, whether eraploved permanently or casually. Luder the Act employers are required to introduce a recording system, and many already have begun this to enable them to assess easily what a worker is entitled to when the Act comes into force. Ou completion of each year with an employer every worker is entitled to an annual holiday of two weeks on ordinary pay. and the holiday is to be given within six months after it becomes due. It a worker's 'employment is terminated after he has become entitled to an annual holiday, but before he has taken it, tae employer must pay him the holiday pay Provision is made for shorter periods of employment, than one year. A here a man has worked for three months or more. but. less than one year, be is to be paid on the termination of his employment one twenty-filth of bis ordinary Pay tor the period of bis employment. It the employment is for less than three months, lint, not less than a week, the employer must affix to the workers' holiday card ordinary postage or revenue stamps to the value of one twenty-fifth of his ordinary pay, less tax- The holibay card mav bo surrendered after one year to any money order office, when the worker will receive the total value of the stamps. If the period of employment is *ess than three weeks, the value to be affixed is one twenty-fifth of the workers ordinary pay for the time worked by him during that period of employment This is taken to mean that if a gardener, for instance, is employed on three days of a week and paid 25/- at the end of that period, a stamp for 1/- is affixed to his holiday card. . ' The card is to be retained by the worker, as. in the event of its being lost or destroyed no credit can be given by the post office for any uncanceiled stamps it. contains. The card contains spaces for the affixing of postage stamps and the signature of the employer, who must nut cancel the stamps-