FAILURE OF FIRM TO REINSTATE SOLDIER
LONDON, November 24. For the first time in Britain, an Ipswich firm has been fined £5 for failing to reinstate a discharged soldier in employment. The firm was also ordered to pay 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 reinstatement was intended to apply after the war. Nobody was placed in the vacant job, as no work was available.
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Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 5
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