INCREASE LIKELY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 5

INCREASE LIKELY

OOMPEN SA'TION PAYMENTS. MEN ON RELIEF WORKS. The Unemployment Board has been reviewing for some time the question of granting higher rates of compensation to relief workers, and. it is understood that it has now reached a new basis, especially for men who are permanently disabled while on relief work. 'The new rates will shortly be brought into operation, and their effect. will be to put a man. who is permanently disabled on a basis approaching that of a man who is injured while in full-time employment. ; While it is likely that relief workers who suffer temporary or .permanent disablement as the result of injuries sustained -while on Unemployment Board work will,.in the near future, receive a higher rate of compensation than has been the case in the past, there is said to be no need for an. amendment to-the Workers' Compensation Act to ensure this result. The Unemployment Board carries its own insurance on., relief • workers and can thus make whatever arrangements it likes for the payment of compensation, provided, of course, that these payments are not below those prescribed in the Workers’ Compensation Act. In the. past, Tdihpensation to relief workers -has been on tho basis laid down in tlie A-ct ? as rosuit of which they have been limited to obtaining not more than two-thirds of the amount they have earned on relief work. -