HOLIDAYS WITH PAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 7

HOLIDAYS WITH PAY

DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH SCHEME AGRICULTURAL AND OTHER WORKERS OFFICIAL MACHINERY MADE AVAILABLE (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, July 8. The Government’s Holidays With Pay Bill, has been published. In fulfilment of' undertakings given recently in the House of Commons by the Minister of Labour, Mr Ernest Brown, the Bill empowers trade board’s agricultural wages committees, and the Road Haulage Central Wages Board, to direct that any workers whose wages they regulate shall be granted holidays. The duration of the holidays is to be related to the period of employment with an employer. In the case of trade boards and agricultural wages committee, the holidays so granted cannot exceed a maximum of seven days in a year, and in the case of agricultural wages committees there is a restriction that only three of these days can be required to be taken consecutively. Otherwise the times, periods and circumstances in which holidays shall be allowed are left for settlement by the wage regulating authority. The Bill also deals with power to enable the machinery of the Ministry of Labour to be used in the administration of the scheme for paid holidays. This power can be exercised only if a joint application for assistance is made by organisations representing employers and workers in an industry or branch of an industry to which the scheme relates. It includes making arrangements whereby the Ministry will issue to workers the holiday payments due under the scheme. Where this power is used, both sums issued by the Ministry and expenses attributable to the working of the scheme will be recoverable from the parties.