TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11173, 31 March 1922, Page 6

TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES

\ juSr P. AND T. SERVICE. / SICK LEAVE PROVISION& Under the Post and Telegraph Department Act of 1918, amended regulations with regard to annual leave and sick leave were gazetted yesterday. They provide that every officer in the department and every temporary employee (if retained for more than a year) may be granted 18 working days’ annual leave if his continuous service totals ten years or upwards and twelve working days if under ten years’ service. Message, boys and girls are allowed six days’ leave after one year’s complete service. A deduction of one day is to be made for each working day’s absence on sick-leave in excess or twelve. Subject to similar deduction, twelve days’ annual leave in allowed to temporary, workmen with over two years’ continuous service: while for other temporary warknSgfifleave of absence with pay may be granted in respect of seven statutory holidays. Provision is made for accumulated leave of albsenoe not exceeding J 36 days, in respect of a period of two years; and it is provided that tho Secretary may fox sufficient reason defer to a subsequent year the leave due to any officer. SICK LEAVE. The new regulations also provide that.- — (1) In case of sickness or accident an officer is required to report at once to his immediate controlling officer his inability to present himself for duty. Where the absence extends over two days a medical certificate showing the nature of the sickness or accident and the period of incapacitation for duty must bo furnished; provided, however, that any controlling officer, if he thinks fit, may require a medical certificate to be supplied forthwith. \

(2) For tho period of an officer’s absence from duty through sickness, accident, or other pressing necessity the Secretary may grant such extended leave of absence and on such terms as hethinks fit; provided that payment .of salary shall not be made to any officer who without tho permission of his district controlling officer leaves his headquarters. (3) Officers injured while in the performance of their duty may, on the special authority of the Secretary, bo paid salary for the period of their incapacity. (4) This regulation applies equally to members of the permanent and temporary staffs.

/STATUTORY HOLIDAY'S. With regard to statutory holidays, it is provided that tne following days, or any days specially authorised by tho Uovernor-General-iivCouncil instead thereof, shall be observed as holidays in the department, namely: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Y T ear’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, tho King’s Birthday, Labour Day, and Anzao Day. Officers who cannot be granted such holidays axe to be allowed equivalent time off or paid overtime at rate and a half for all time worked, provided that those employees who are eligible to participate in only seven statutory holidays will noit be granted pay although released from duty on Boxing Day and Easter Saturday” __________