HOLIDAY PAY FOR WORKERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 17

HOLIDAY PAY FOR WORKERS

Extended Benefits In Britain I I Helpful Support in Many Quarters British Official Wireless (Received July 15, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 14. Moving the second reading of the Holidays with Pay Bill. The Minister of Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) said the measure gave permission and power to certain wage-fixing authorities to fix holidays with pay and this affected potentially about 2,000,000 workers, and as a result, holidays with pay would become a legal reality. Co-operation Acknowledged i Mr Brown said the Amulree Committee estimated that to the end of I 1936, holidays with pay were assured to about 7,750.000 work people—a proportion of 40 per cent, of the 18,500,000 | work people. He had already set up a departmental committee to co-ordinate industrial, educational, transport and lodging and other holiday arrangements, and considerable progress had been made. The educational authorities were endeavouring to arrange the school holidays in elementary and secondary schools so as to fit in with the industrial holidays. In the main, this would be a local problem. The Board of Education had also been in consultation with the university authorities and the examining bodies, and the board had been impressed with the readiness of all concerned to help in dealing with this problem.