FIRM PROSECUTED
Failure To Reinstate Soldier In Former Job !■« AW MISUNDERSTOOD Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON. Nov. 24. For the first time in Britain a firm has been fined To for failing to reinstate a discharged soldier in employment at Ipswich, and also ordered to pay a fine of nine weeks' wages to him.
The prosecution said that the soldier was discharged as unfit for military service and applied to his former employers for reinstatment. but was told that there was no vacancy. It was stated for the defence that the firm did not understand the law but imagined that reinstatement was intended to apply after the war. Nobody had been placed in the vacant job as there was no work available.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 279, 25 November 1941, Page 7
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