Holiday cash up plan “dishonest and ludicrous”

The Mar­itime Union has sav­aged a Gov­ern­ment plan to reduce hol­i­days for New Zealand work­ers by per­mit­ting “cash ups” of the fourth week of annu­al leave.

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says that the plan will effec­tive­ly force ordi­nary work­ers to give up a weeks hol­i­day while per­mit­ting well-paid exec­u­tives and man­agers to spend more time at the beach.