HOLIDAY BONUSES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 June 1937, Page 9

HOLIDAY BONUSES

EMPLOYERS’ ATTITUDE. DEDFENCE OF OFFENDERS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 6. It is the intention of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation to undertake the defence of any employers who are prosecuted as a result of the judgment of Mr J. 11. Luxford, S.M., in the holiday bonus case in Wellington recently, in which the Magistrate ruled tha.t the clothing trade employees who had been paid their wages in full for the working week were entitled to payment for the prescribed holiday Under the Factories Act on which ordinarily they would not have worked. A statement to this effect was made by Mr J. S. Dawes, president of the Auckland Employers’ Association, who said the assistant secretary had been instructed to circularise members accordingly. Mr Dawes gave information that an appeal against the Magistrate’s judgment in the case brought in Wellington, and which affects employers in other trades under the Factories Act, would be lodged in due course. , _ . ~ Employers are to be asked in _ toe meantime to ignore Mr Luxford s judgment so far as it concerns the payment of an extra day’s wages for last Boxing Day.