REINSTATEMENT
EMPLOYERS' PROBLEM
"Employers are very chary about taking on any man whose services they are going to lose to the Armed Forces," declared Mr. R. R. Scott, counsel for two prisoners, in the 'Supr'Sme Court today. The reason, he explained to Mr. Justice Blair, was the effect of the. regulations requiring the reinstatement of workers on the completion of their military service. "It is something that an employer does not talk about to a prospective employee," Mr Scott added. Remarking that he did not pretend to have studied the regulations, his Honour asked what would be the position of an employer who took on, say, half a dozen men in succession, for the same job. Mr. Scott said' reinstatement was required where a man had been employed for at least four weeks immediately prior to his volunteering or being called up.. "So far as- the employers are concerned they find your Honour's question an unanswerable conundrum, and one that may be a very serious embarrassment to them in the future." counsel added. "The- regulations do not take into account whether or not an employer is in business at the end of the war."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 144, 15 December 1942, Page 3
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194REINSTATEMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 144, 15 December 1942, Page 3
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