THE SIX-DAYS' WEEK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 6

THE SIX-DAYS' WEEK

OPINION OF THE CROWN LAW OFFICE. If tho whole holiday if. given oliee in every week —counting every week as standing hv itself—-is that sufficient to comply with the local Hotel Workers' Award? The question has been raised mainly because of ft practice in tho ps.6t, in reference, 'to the weekly half. Iwiiday (now suspended), wh-ereiu it was considered 'sufficient, observance, of tho Act if a worker got his holiday oMe in every' separate wefek, irrespective of the time nl-apsmg bctsraeii one holiday and the next.

To definitely sett la the point, an opinion was obtained from tiro Crown Law Office. The Labour Department now advise? the local union to the effect that the holiday must bo given at tlio oompletiou of six days' service. Under tlio old wactieo it was , seme-times jir* ranged that .t Worker got liis holiday on the first day of one week, and tho Inst 'day of the next week, t/hiis making a onriod of thirteen days between two holidays. In tlio opinion sif the Crown Law Office, such a practice is against tlio spirit of tlio velioto-holklay provision of t])<! new award, which requires that no employee shall work for tmwef than six consecutive days without lieins allowed the seventh day as a holiday.

It isi ■understood that, whatever has Uwn tlio'practice in the past, the union will nstc that the award lie read in nnrordanCG villi the- decision of tlie Crown Law Qfiioo, \