KING’S BIRTHDAY
NO HALT IN ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES.
STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF LABOUR.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
Work in essential industries engaged on war work will continue as usual on the King’s Birthday, which is to be observed on June 1. According to a statement by the Minister of .Labour (Mr Webb) today, a notice has been gazetted requiring all employers to operate their undertakings, and all workers to work on the King’s Birthday in every essential or “declared” undertaking where a controller .has issued to an employer a direction to that effect. Workers engaged on the King’s Birthday are to be paid holiday rates and any employer, directed as above, who fails to operate his undertaking, or any worker who absents himself from work without reasonable excuse, will render themselves liable to a penalty under the Emergency Regulations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 4
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