SCHEME 13 MEN
TO BE RETAINED MEANWHILE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, March 29
Subsidised workers employed by the City Council under the No. 13 scheme are to be retained in their jobs in the meantime, according to advice received by the council from the Christchurch office of the Employment Division of the Labour Department. This does not apply to men aged 60 or more, who are eligible for the age benefits under the Social Security Act. These men will be dismissed at the end of the week.
Altogether the council employs 750 subsidised men, and of these about 85 w"\ be put off under the age clause of the Act. The notice from the local employment office adds that advice regarding the men retained will be forwarded in the course of a few days.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 14
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134SCHEME 13 MEN Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 14
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