THE PUBLIC SERVICE
FORTY-HOUR WEEK INTRODUCED NEW HOLIDAY PROVISIONS (Per United Press Association* WELLINGTON, Jan. 8. Regulations issued under the Public Service Act provide for the working of a 40-hour week. .They also provide that every officer in the public service and every temporary employee, if circumstances should arise necessitating the retention of such employee in the service for more than a year, may be granted by the permanent head leave of absence for recreation on the following scale:— (a) When the officer has served 10 years or upwards, not exceeding three weeks in each year. (b) When the officer has served for less than" 10 years, not exceeding two weeks in each year. (c) Officers who generally work more than six days a week, dot exceeding four weeks in each year, to be taken in two periods of two weeks each if desired. The granting of such leave is subject to the satisfactory behaviour of the officer and the satisfactory performance of his duties.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19370109.2.77
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 23084, 9 January 1937, Page 12
Word Count
165THE PUBLIC SERVICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23084, 9 January 1937, Page 12
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.