MEN ON RELIEF WORK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 4259, 2 November 1933, Page 3

MEN ON RELIEF WORK.

COMPENSATION PAYMENTS

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 pernianently disabled on a basis approachjng that of a man who is injured while in full-time employment. While it is li'kely that relief workers who suffer temporarily or permanent disablement as the result of injuries sustained while on Tinemployment 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. Tn the past compensation to relief workers has been on the basis laid down in the Act, as a result of which they have been limited to obtaining not more than two-thirds of the amount they have earned on relief work.