HOLIDAY BONUS CASE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 8

HOLIDAY BONUS CASE

ATTITUDE OF EMPLOYERS [ Per Press Association. I AUCKLAND, June 6. It. is the intention of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation to undertake the defence of any employers who are prosecuted as a result of the judgment of Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the holiday bonus case in Wellington recently, in which the magistrate ruled that clothing trade employees who had been paid their wages in full for the working week were entitled to payment for a prescribed holiday under the Factories Act on which ordinarily they would not have worked.

A statement to this effect was made by Mr. J. S. Dawes, president of the Auckland Employers’ Association, who said the assistant-secretary had been instructed to circularise members accordingly. Mr. Dawes gave the information that an appeal against the magistrate’s judgment in the ca«e brought in Wellington and which affects employers in other trades under the Factories Act, would be lodged in due course. Employers are to be asked, in the meantime, to ignore Mr Luxford's judgment so far as it concerns the payment of an extra day’s wages for last Boxing Day.