HOLIDAY PAY

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1937, Page 5

HOLIDAY PAY

EMPLOYERS SEEK LEGISLATION(Per Press Association). ' CHRISTCHURCH, June 2Retrospective. legislation is to be souglit from the Government jo rectify the position which is considered to have arisen from a reserved decision given, by Mr Luxford, S-M-, in Wellington in a test case to decide whether employees 1 were entitled to an additional day’s pay for, an award holiday that fell on a day on which their -factory would ordinarily be closed- The Magistrate decided that the employees were so entitled, and members of the Council of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, at a' meeting (this evening, claimed that this was a reversal of the position as stated by the Labour Department, and, khat legislation was required to rectify it- A resolution to that effect wa s carried- ■