ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 406, 13 April 1937, Page 6

ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE.

AUCKLAND EMPLOYEES Company Told It Has No Redress. Auckland, April 13. Without obtaining perrnission from their employers, 40 employees of an Auckland clothing firm absented theintelvas from work oij Easter Tuesday, and the company found, on application to the Labour Department, that it had no redress, according to a letter of complaint which catne before a meeting of the general committee of the Auckland Manufacturers’ Association. In Its letter to the association the company said it wished to point, out to anomaly in the awards Covering its industry and a number of other industries 1 . This was the question of payment to employees tor statutory holidays such as Good Friday and Easter Monday whei’e they absqjT.ed themselves before or after holidays v.’ithout permission. As many ns 40 of the company’s employees did not return to work on the Tuesday morning after the Easter holidays, and when it took the matter up nri.h the Labour Department the company was told that it had no redress. It would also have to pay these employees for the Easter holidays, although not one of them had permission to stay away from work on the Tuesday. “I think we can all sympathise with them in the matter,” said the president of the association, Mr F. N. Ambler, “but it is a matter for the Employers’ Association. It shows the wisdom of our having kept out of matters affecting employers and employees.”