ANZAC MONDAY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 May 1937, Page 5

ANZAC MONDAY

TREBLE PAY IMPOSED. AUCKLAND, Friday. It is now clear that treble pay will have to be paid for work performed last Monday by weekly workers in the clothing factories who are covered by awards which contain provision that when Anzac Day falls on a Sunday a holiday shall be observed on Monday. That statement is subject, of course, to those 1 employers who consider that the Court of Arbitration has no power to fix an alternative holiday for a statutory Anzac Day being successfully prosecuted by the Department of Labour for failure to pay the holiday rates prescribed in the award. Several employers, including the firm affected by the dispute with its employees on tho question, to-day paid double rates of pay for Monday under the impression that their liability had thus been cleared. Under a new ruling of the department, however, liability under the award for wages will not be removed until they pay an extra day’s wages. The department now rules that where factories affected by the awards were open on Monday, the weekly workers, in-addition to a full week’s wages, must be paid double rates for Monday. That ruling means in effect treble rates for Monday, so that a woman worker employed under a five-day week and entitled to £2 a week in tho ordinary course must this week be paid £2/16/-. -(P.A.)