OUT-OF-WORK INSURANCE.
(Received November 9, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 8. The new out-of-work Act operates today. It applies to all employees, including non-manuals, excepting agriculturists and domestic servants whose remuneration does not exceed £250 annually. Nearly twelve millions, of whom one-third are "women, are now insured, compared with four millions in 1911. The standard weekly payments range from 10d for a man" to 4_d for a girl, provided between employer and employee. The State weekly benefits range from 15s to 16s respectively. — iWter.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15365, 9 November 1920, Page 3
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83OUT-OF-WORK INSURANCE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15365, 9 November 1920, Page 3
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