Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Holidays with Pay Convention, 1936 (No. 52) - New Zealand (Ratification: 1950)

Article 8 of the Convention and Part III of the report form. The Committee notes the observation made by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) concerning the transferral of responsibility for enforcing awards and agreements from the Department of Labour to employers and unions. The NZCTU states that in practice 40 per cent of the workforce now has no effective means of ensuring a paid holiday, and that this is not satisfactory under the Convention.

The Committee would be glad if the Government would provide its own views in this respect. Please give full information on the system of sanctions established to ensure application of the provisions of the Convention, including information on practical application of the system. Please indicate any modification made, either in law or in practice, to section 35 of the Holidays Act 1981; and describe the working of inspection in this respect.

[The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1991.]