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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3255, 21 April 1943, Page 7

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT

“Agricultural Workers’ Holidays”: The Agricultural Workers’ Act 1936, I states: —“Every agricultural worker who is employed on a dairy-farm for not less than four weeks continuousj ly shall be allowed by his employer ' a holiday of not less than seven days in the aggregate for every twelve weeks of employment, and a holiday of a proportionate part of a week lor every broken period of employment. The said holidays shall be allowed at such time or times as the employer thinks fit, but so that not less than i twenty-eight days in the aggregate shall be allowed during each year of employment, and in the event of the termination of the employment of an agricultural worker all holidays to which he is then entitled shall bo allowed to him forthwith. If any agricultural worker is allowed a halfholiday from noon for the remainder of the day on one day in each week of his employment, it shall be suffic.ent if he is allowed an additional holi«day of not less than fourteen days in the aggregate during each year of his

employment, and a holiday of a proportionate part of a fortnight for every part of a year of employment. Any agricultural worker employed on a dairy-farm may agree with his employer to be allowed leave from work between milkings on one day in each week of his employment instead of being allowed a half-holiday, and if such leave is allowed it shall be deemed to be equivalent to a half-holiday.” The wages tax was increased to 2s 6d in the & on May 10, 1942. EDITOR.