HOLIDAY WAGES
BOXING DAY ; PAYMENTS
There appear to be misunderstandings regarding the wages to be paid in respect of the Christmas and New Year holiday period, and particularly in regard to Boxing Day, which falls _on Saturday. The position is as follows, except where an award specifically provides for payment for Boxing Day, such as in the clothing . trades employees' award: —. .
Workers are . entitled to be paid, a full vyeek's pay but no more.
Workers who ordinarily do not work on Saturday, whether they are on an hourly or weekly basis, should be paid five days for the week in which the holiday falls.
Workers who ordinarily do work on Saturday should be; paid; for Boxing Day at their .ordinaryI.rate. Workers who are required to work on Boxing Day must be paid double time'in addition to their ordinary wages, except in the case of coal gas works, dairy factories, and electric power generating plants. Workers other than factory workers, if on a weekly wage, must be paid the full week;s pay. If' on an hourly or daily wage, they must be paid for the hours or days worked, not.more.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 14
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189HOLIDAY WAGES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 14
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