CHRISTMAS VACATION
RELIEF WORKERS' POSITION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The Hon. W. B. Tavevner has forwarded the' following telegram to Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P.: — "Referring to your telegram regarding the Christmas pay for workmen on Public Works, tho position is that jobs which close down as from 19th December do not necessarily include relief works. Aa relief workers are not entitled to any statutory holidays or annual leave on pay, I have directed tho Department that relief works are not to bo compulsorily closed down
for the usual Christmas and New Year vacation this year. I have also instructed the Department that any relief workers who desire to remain at .work are to be allowed to do so, and that those who prefer to have the usual vacation are to be automatically grauted time off without pay."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 10
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140CHRISTMAS VACATION Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 10
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