WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
AMENDMENTS SUGGESTED LEGAL CONFERENCE VIEWS (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. The Dominion legal conference carried the following resolution: “That it be a recommendation from the conference to the New Zealand Law Society that any amendments to tin Workers Compensation Act should include the following provisions: (1), That insurance against, liability in respect of injury bv accident be made compulsory : (2). that the provisions of section 63 ol the statute be extended to include such work as the fencing anddrainage y land, the cutting of firewood and fencing material, and generally any farming work done l>v contract; (3), that in every case where an employer pays trav oiling time or, though not, paying travelling time, provides a means of conveying workers to and from work, compensation be payable in respect of accidents happening to workers in transit: (4). that provision he made for paymen!, in non-fatal cases, of a reasonable amount by way of hospital and medical expenses; (5). that the defence, of common employment be altogether abolished.’’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 15
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170WORKERS’ COMPENSATION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 15
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