WORKERS’ HOLIDAYS

Southland Times, Issue 25746, 9 August 1945, Page 7

WORKERS’ HOLIDAYS

Week’s Notice To Be Given (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 8. A worker is to receive at least seven days’ notice from his employer of the date on which he is required to go on annual leave by a clause in the Annual Holidays Amendment Bill, which was introduced and read a first time in the House of Representatives Holiday pay is also to be paid before the worker begins his leave. Another clause brings industrial life insurance agents within the scope of the Act. Provision is also made for the redemption of the stamps on the holiday card in cases where a worker is going to leave New Zealand or had died. The special holiday provisions to meet the cases of waterside workers and tally clerks have been extended to apply to shipwrights and ships’ carpenters employed on terms of engagement. It is made an offence to use stamps that have been affixed to holiday cards. The acting Minister of Labour, Mr O’Brien, who explained the Bill, stated that cases had arisen where it was suspected the stamps had been removed from annual holidays cards and cashed with the Post Office at a discount, thus avoiding payment of national security and social security charges.