ILO to study holidays clause 'soon'

The General Workers' Union will keep insisting that collective agreements retain the clause adding a day's leave to workers when a public holiday falls on weekends, general secretary Tony Zarb said yesterday.

Addressing a biennial general conference of one of the union's sections, Mr Zarb referred to the government's threat to remove a number of public holidays should the union hold an abrogative referendum for the people to decide whether they wanted additional leave for public holidays falling on weekends. The union, Mr Zarb said, took the matter to the International Labour Organisation which would soon start looking into it.