FACTORY WORKERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23599, 8 September 1938, Page 9

FACTORY WORKERS

AMENDING LEGISLATION HOLIDAY PROVISIONS CLARIFIED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Sept. 7. The holiday provisions in the Factories Amendment Act, 1936, are clarified by a section in the Statutes Amendment Bill which was introduced in the House of Representatives by Governor-General’s Message to-day. The Act of 1936 provided for paid holidays for factory workers on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Labour Day, and the King’s Birthday. In the case of all these holidays, with the exception of Anzac Day, Labour Day and the King’s Birthday, it was provided that holiday pay would be made to all factory workers employed in a factory at any time during the preceding fortnight, while provision for the other three days was that payment should be made to any worker employed within four days of the holiday. These portions of the Act are to be renealed, and the new provision is that the payment of wages for all holidays will be made to factory workers employed in a factory at any time during the fortnight ending on the day on which the holiday occurs. If a factory worker has been employed by more than one person during the fortnight he will be entitled to receive holiday pay from the several employers in a proportion to be determined by the inspector of factories. # An additional provision is that the employment of a casual worker merely for the purpose of baking or preparing for the baking of any article of food reauired for sale for human consumption to meet the public demand resulting from the observance of any of the holidays will not constitute a case for the payment of holiday wages.