THE INSURANCE ACT.
EMPLOYERS’ TACTICS. EVADING THE INSURANCE ACT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 5. (Received January 6, at noon.) In consequence of the operation of the Insurance Act the directors of Guinness's brewery have dismissed 4,000 i>? thsir employees, and iKrcngaged t&o® -k= .oonditfon that in future sick allowances ffhcij he purely gratuitous on the part of the Erm. In granting future benefits the firm will take into account the operation of th« National Insurance scheme. [The above step appears to have been taken with the intention of challenging the validity of the Act, but in the absence of fullor_ details it may be as well to state that it is optional for an-employer in a trade or district where it is customary to pay wages during sickness to avail himself of an arrangement whereby, if ho contracts to pay his employees full remuneration for a period of sickness lasting (in any given year) six weeks or under, the weekly ioint contribution is reduced from 7d to’ 2d.]
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Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 4
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169THE INSURANCE ACT. Evening Star, Issue 15075, 6 January 1913, Page 4
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