THE UNEMPLOYED
STATUS OF SEASONAL WORKERS. NO DISCRIMINATION TO BE MADE (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Unemployment Board has decided that no discrimination shall be made between seasonal workers and* any other workers registering or reregistering for unemployment relief. This advice was received from the Commissioner for Employment (Mr J. S. Hunter) by the Christchurch Unemployment Committee yesterday. Tha letter gave as an example that if a seasonal worker before registering has ■not been on relief for three months or more, he may be required to stand down at the discretion of the certifying officer for not more than two weeks, depending on the length of time the applicant had been off relief and the amount of his earnings from private employment and his circumstances at the time of registering. The letter also stated that the eligibility of seasonal workers for relief should he determined in exactly the same -manner as that of all other unemployed workers registering or re-registering.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 239, 23 July 1935, Page 6
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