HOLIDAY WAGES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 5

HOLIDAY WAGES

DAIRY FACTORY WORKERS

DEPARTMENT'S WARNING

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 28.

An intimation ■ that the Labour Department proposed to prosecute in all cases of failure to pay holiday wages to employees eligible to such payment under the dairy. factories' employees' award was given by Mr. W. Slaughter, officer in charge of the Labour Department in Auckland. "I wish not only to repeat the warning I gave previously, but to state that the Taranaki case referred to as apparently'determining the attitude of employers has no application to the Auckland award," said Mr. Slaughter. "The Auckland award provides for an annual holiday. If this holiday is not given to any worker who is entitled to it under the award the matter should immediately be reported to a responsible officer of the Department nearest to the factory concerned." Mr. Slaughter stated that he had been in communication with the head office of the Department in Wellington on the subject, and it was in agreement with the attitude he had taken on the question. Mr. Slaughter's intimation of the Department's policy is a result of a published statement that dairy factories in Auckland did not intend to pay wages for holidays until the position regarding their, liability under the award was clarioed.