BRITISH FIRM FINED
MAN NOT REINSTATED DISCHARGED SOLDIER (Reed. Nov. 25, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 24. For the first time in Britain an Ipswich firm was fined £5 for failing to reinstate a discharged soldier in his employment and was also ordered to pay a tine, of nine weeks’ wages to him. The prosecution said the soldier was discharged as unfit for military service and applied to his employers for reinstatement, but was told 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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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 25 November 1941, Page 6
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