WORKERS’ VOTES

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8847, 26 November 1935, Page 2

WORKERS’ VOTES

HALF-HOLIDAY FOR SHOP 1 EMPLOYEES | TIME OFF FOR OTHERS To enable electors employed in shops to record their votes to-morrow , a half-holiday will be observed, except in the case of businesses which ! do not customarily observe the | statutory closing day, such as fish- i mongers, fruiterers, confectioners and bakers, but in these assistants must be given sufficient time off to | record their votes. Hotels must | close from noon and are not permitled to open again until the following morning. In the case of factories, the occupier is required to afford each employee reasonable opportunity of recording his vote without making any | deduction from his wages in respect of the time occupied in recording his vote, provided that the time taken does not exceed one working hour. The larg» body of men engaged under relief schemes are not covered by these Acts, and the Minister of Employment, the Hon. S. G. Smith, : has announced that Scheme 5 work--1 ers will not be required to work pn | the afternoon of election day, but I will be paid for the time as though j they were working. So far as men working full time for standard rates on schemes subsidised by the Unemployment Board are concerned, the question of their being given time off will be at the discretion of the employing bodies. If such ‘ men are given time off to vote, the board’s subsidy will be paid as usual.