HOLIDAYS WITH PAY

Southland Times, Issue 24601, 25 November 1941, Page 6

HOLIDAYS WITH PAY

Legislation Suggested

(P A ) WELLINGTON, November 24. The ninth annual conference of the New Zealand Federated Labourers and Related Trades Industrial Association of Workers last week resolved that the Government be urged to introduce a weekly wage to all workers, tnat strong representations be made for immediate provision for payment for statutory holidays to all workers and that a “holidays with pay Bill be brought in. . . u The Federation of Labour is to be requested to make strong representations to the Government for a complete overhaul of the Workers’ Compensation Act in conformity with the report at the 1941 conference of the Labour Federation. A committee was set up to investigate matters relating to Scheme 13 men whose services have been utilized by local bodies. A suggestion that hospital maintenance should come out of the Social Security Fund was the subject of protest on the ground that maintenance was a proper charge on the community and the value of land and that it was indefensible that the richest people in the land should be relieved of taxation at the expense of people who did not own property but depended on their labour. The wages tax should be abolished altogether at the earliest opportunity. It was decided to ask the Labour Federation to take steps to form a national building trades union. Other resolutions object to any possibility of a Coalition Government and urge the Government to take over control of all patriotic funds.