SPECIAL LEAVE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 6

SPECIAL LEAVE

Grant for Temporary Men on Pi|blic Works SEASONAL WORK The granting of special leave of absenee to temporary workers on Public Works for steasonal occupations sueh as shearing (includiug shed hands), haymaking, harvesting and slaughtering (but not other work in freezing works) has been agreed to on the same conditions as last year by the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. Semple. Details of the terme of this special leave (which will not be paid for by the Department) are contained.in a circular signed by Mr J. Wood, Engineer-in-chief and Under-secretaTy of the Public Works Department. Leave must be approved by the officer in charge of the work, and, except in exceptional cases of haymaking and harvesting, it will not be approved for less than five days nor for longer than three months. Workmen cannot return to their work for the Department on days unsuitable for haymaking or harvesting. . ' "It is not desirable," the circular points out, "that departmental workmen should go harvesting and haymaking during the Christmas and New Year" vacation and thus compete with unemployed or other available mon; but there will be no objection to workmen who are not entitled to annual leave on pay doing haymaking and harvesting during that period if there is a real shortage of suitable labour in the district, and if farmers are unable to obtain all the labour they require, either direetly or from Government Employment Bureaux, ' ' Any workman who goes haymaking during the Christmas-New "Year vacation must return to his departmental work on the day fixed for Tesumption of work, unless he has been granted special leave. A workman will be re-employed by the Department when his seasonal work is finished, provided that the departmental work on which he was empioyed has not* been completed and has v acancies on it. '