RAILWAY WORKERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9574, 27 July 1923, Page 6

RA ILWAY WO RK ERS.

SICK LEAVE FOP IXFLTTEXZA. V’ET/UNGTON. July 26. 1 lie question of whether employees in the Bailway Service should he paid for time off when they were absent from work on account of the prevailing infiuennn, was mentioned ii>. the House to-day by Mr. M. T. Arm- • strong (Christchurch Eartl This, he said, had been done in PUS. There wore, ho added, as many as 140 men connecter 1 , with the Addin/-,tmi Shops laid iin at one time. Tf they were not paid it would he a hardship on their families. Tho snhiied men . who had better nav were paid during : their absence when they were sick. . Borne, private employers and some local bodies wore, he understood, so paying their men for the. time they i were laid up. • j The Hon. Mr. Coates apologised for * having forgotten to look inco the, ' lion, member’s question, so that he might have given a decided answer. ;. He, however, pointed out that tho eivcnm.sta.nces now were different from what they were in 1918. Since then an agreement had been made with tho men that they should have a 44instead of a 47-hcur week, on condition that they were to loiego some privileges that they had formerly. He could not say o If-hand whether this was one of these privileges,- but he would make inquiries and let, the hon. member know tho position. He would be glad to look into the matter from all aspects.—Special. /