WORK AFTER THE WAR

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23086, 31 July 1940, Page 10

WORK AFTER THE WAR

SOLDIERS MUST BE REINSTATED ASSURANCE BY PRIME MINISTER LFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, July 30. An assurance that compliance with the regulations requiring employers to reinstate soldiers in their civil occupations after service will be insisted on was given by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon, P. Fraser) in reply to an urgent question asked by Mr F. L. Frost (Government, New Plymouth) in the House to-day. Mr Frost quoted a case where a married man, discharged after two months in camp owing to flat feet, found his civilian job taken by a single man 24 years of age, and was told by his employer that he was not prepared to reinstate him. as it would not be fair to the new man. “I understand that the local inspector of factories is making inquiries today into that case,” the Prime Minister replied. Clause 4 of the Occupational Reestablishment Emergency Regulations, 1939, provides that "it shall be the duty of any employer by whom or by a predecessor of whom a person accepted for service in His Majesty’s Forces, whether in New Zealand or overseas, was employed when accepted, to reinstate him in his employment at the termination of that service, or during any period of leave from that service without pay. in an occupation and under conditions not less favourable to him than those he would have had if hj had not gone on military service.”