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C 40 ORDER IN COUNCIL MADE UNDER THE HOLIDAYS WITH PAY ORDINANCE, 1952, (No.

3 of 1952).

No.

32 of 1953.

UNDER SECTION 3 OF THE HOLIDAYS WITH PAY ORDINANCE, 1952, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL AS FOLLOWS:- 1.This Order may be cited as the Holidays with Pay (Hotel, Res­ taurant, Cook-shop 2.In this Order - and Parlour Employees) Order, 1953.
"earnings" means the regular employee in respect the value of any meals supplied virtue of his contract amount paid in respect such payments amounts.
of the employee's amounts paid by an employer to an and includes under or by but does not include any of overtime or by way of bonus, unless to such employee services, of employment, by way of bonus form part of such regular For the purposes of this definition, the meals shall be deemed to be the amount fixed as under the terms of the employee's employment, so fixed, shall by the Commissioner of Labour; to cook-shop be as determined means any of the persons in any hotel, restaurant, in the Schedule specified "employee" cash value of any such by or or if it is not this Order and employed or parlour, but the occupier does not include of such premises; any member of the family of "medical practitioner" under the Colonial means a person registered as a medical Medical Service (Consolidation) prac­ titioner Ordinance, Chapter 186.
3.

(1) Every employee being in employment at the date of the com­ mencement of this Order shall be of not less than one ted as though his employment ment of this Order.
day for each completed commenced allowed a period of holidays with pay month of employment compu­ on the date of the commence­ (2)Every employee not being in employment commencement allowed a perod of holidays completed month of employment, of this Order but thereafte1..· with pay computed at the date of the being in employment shall be of not less than one day for each from the date of engagement.

4.
4.

(1) No employer shall require an employee to take his holidays with pay in periods shall require completion Provided his employer to allow him holidays of six consecutive months' service: with pay prior to the that any of the days which are public holidays under the of less than six consecutiv e days, and no employee· provisions of the Public Holidays may, by agreement between the employer as a period of holidays with pay.
Ordinance for the time being in force and the employee, be allowed (2)The holidays with pay shall be given by the employer and shall be taken by the employee the date upon which the right to such holiday before the expiration accrues.

of three months after (3)The employer shall determine the date on which the holida:v shall commence and shall give to the emp1'oyee notice of such date.
not less than seven days • C 41 5.In respect of a period of holidays with pay the employer for each day of such period remuneration of the average weekly earnings of the employee to the employee one-sixth vious six months or durir,g ployer whichever is the lesser period.
shall pay at the rate of during the pre­ with the em­ the period of his employment 6.When the employment of an employee is terminated, either by or by the employer, the employee ployee in lieu of such period of holidays under the provision has been made, a sum equal to the remuneration been paid for a like periorl of holidays with pay as shall have accrued of which no payment which would have the employer shall pay to the em­ of this Order and in respect with pay if taken at that date.
7.For the purposes deemed to be continuous work without ing two consecutive days: of this Order a period of employment shall if it has not been interrupted by absence fre>m be the permission of the employer for a period not exceed­ not exceeding ployment for Provided that periods of fourteen the purposes 8.This Order shall apply- of this Order.
illness certified by a medical practitioner d8ys shall not be deemed to be a break in em­ , (a) to the city of Georgetown and within three miles of the boundaries thereof; (b) to the town of New Amsterdam; (c)to the vElage of Bartica.

and 9.This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-three.

Made in Council this 21st day of March, 1953.

JOHN C. MALONE Clerk to the Executive C�uncil.

SCHEDULE (M.P.
SCHEDULE (M.P.

56/34 II) HOTELS Cook Head Cook Assistant Kitchen Maid Pantry Maid Head Waiter Waiter Maid Maid-Waitre9s Bellboy RESTAURANTS AND COOK-SHOPS Cook Head Waitress Waitress Order Girl Boy Dish Washer PARLOURS Assistant Waitress Boy