PETONE CASWORKERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10992, 30 August 1921, Page 5

PETONE CASWORKERS

QUESTION OF HOLIDAYS.

COUNCIL’S “MORAL OBLIGATION.”

The question of holidays, or payment for eame, for ex-employees at the Petone gasworks was before the Petone Borough Council last night. With reference to the private agreement entered into between the council and the gasworkers a disagreement in the reading of the clause governing the holidays which employees were entitled to was referred to the Labour Department. In reply the department stated that, under the agreement, there was a moral on the council to grant fourteen days’ holidays under clause 9 of the agreement, to all workers who worked jTom April Ist, 1920, to March 31st, *921. This, it was undemtood, had been done .by the council, but other workers who commenced work subsequent to 'April Ist, 1920, had not received holidays or payment in lieu thereof, which under the agreement they were entitled to. The members of the council were under the impression that a worker had to complete twelve months’ work before being entitled to claim holidays, but oil the explanation of Mi- R. T. Bailey (acting-officer in charge of the Labour Department) it wan decided to pay the men—all of. whom have left the council’s employ—the amount due in lieu of holidays.