HOLIDAYS WITH PAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19678, 9 July 1938, Page 8

HOLIDAYS WITH PAY

SCHEME IN BRITAIN

BILL ,FOR. COMMONS

ROWER TO HOARDS

(British Official Wireless.) Reed. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, July 8. The Government's holidays-vvith-pay bill has been published. In fulfilment of the unde-takings given recently fct the House of Commons by the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, the bill empowers trade boards and agricultural wages committees and the Road ‘Haulage Central Wages Board to direct that any workers whose wages they regulate shall be granted holidays. The duration of the holidays is be related to the period of employment with an employer. In the case of trade boards and agricultural wages committees the holidays so granted cannot exceed a maximum of seven days in a year and in the case of agricultural wages committees there is a restriction that only three of these days can be required to be taken consecutively. Otherwise the times, periods and circumstances in which holidays shall be allowed are left for settlement by the wages regulating authority. The bill also deals with power to enable the machinery of the Ministry of Labour to be used in the administration of the holiday scheme for paid holidays. This power can be exercised only if joint application for assistance is made by the organisations representing the employers and the workers in the industry or branch of industry to which the scheme relates. It includes making arrangements whereby the Ministry will issue to workers holiday payments due under the scheme. Where this power is used both sums issued by the Ministry and the expenses attributable to the working of the scheme will be recoverable from the parties.