ELIGIBLE WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 138, 7 December 1935, Page 10

ELIGIBLE WORKERS

LATE GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME

' Workers are eligible for the previous Government's holiday allowances under the following schemes:—

1, Scheme's workers employed on a rational basis, i.e., less than 40 hours per week.

: 2. .Gold prospectors, including men employed on development work other than 7 those employed full time (40 hours- or more) at standard rates' of Pay.- :.'■-.■'

3. Clerical workers employed in bureaux; local body offices, relief depots, etc. '

' 4.'Workers employed under schemes 4c arid 4d' (other than future occupiers, under scheme 4c).

5. Gamp workers and cither men employed by: State Departments and local authorities other than those employed full-^time (40 hours or more) at standijrd' rates of pay. When announcing the National Government's scheme last month, the former Minister of Employment (the Hon. S. G. Smith) made the following statement:— '

"Where men are employed by local authorities for full time at standard rates of pay, the Unemployment Board will provide its usual wages contribution in respect of the two weeks ending December 28 and January 4, provided the local authority meets its proportion of the: wages cost," said Mr. Smith. "Camp, workers and other men employed full time at standard rates of pay by State departments will be paid for, the three statutory holidays (i.e., Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Daly), arid will be given the opportunity] of working on the remaining days in each of the weeks ending December 28, 1935, and' January 4, 1936. - "In addition to the holiday concession of pay without work for each of the two weeks mentioned all camp workers desiring to visit their homes during the period the camps are closed, with the exception of those men who have been drafted to full-time standard-rate camps prior to October 1, 1935, will be eligible for transport concessions as follows:—(a) Second-class return rail tickets from their nearest railway station to. their home town at one-quarter of the ordinary rates; (b) half the return cost of reasonable transport where rail .transport is. not available.

"The Unemployment Board has also decided that all men in receipt of sustenance without work and all of the above workers' with the exception of those employed for full time (40 hours per week ;or more) at standard rates olpayiand those covered by clause 3 above who are in receipt of more than £2 10s per week in the case of married men and 37s 6d per week in the case of single men, will be eligible for a special Christmas bonus equal to one week's pay, provided that they were in receipt of relief during the week ending December 7, 1935, and had been in receipt of relief under one of the Unemployment. Board's schemes for a period or periods of not less than 13 weeks during the preceding 12 months."