KING’S BIRTHDAY
WORK AT HOLIDAY RATES WELLINGTON, May 21. Work in essential industries engaged in war work will continue as usual on the King’s Birthday, which will be observed on June 1, according to a statement by Mr. Webb, to-day. A notice has been Gazetted requiring all employers to operate their undertakings and all workers to work on the King’s Birthday in every essential or “declared” undertaking, where a controller has issued to an employer a direction to that effect. Workers engaged on the King’s Birthday will be paid holiday rates. Any employer- directed as above who fails to operate his undertaking, or any worker who absents himself from work without reasonable excuse, renders himself liable to a penalty under the Emergency Regulations.—P.A.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1942, Page 4
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