ASKS FOR PROTECTION FOR WORKERS ON ROADS.
As the Workers’ Compensation Act stands at present, there is no clause covering occupational diseases arising from employment with tar, bitumen, and other mineral oils, used mainly in road-making. To ask that this class of work be included in the compensation clauses, the Trades and Labour Council has written to the Minister of Labour (the Hon W. A. Veitch). The letter also points out that there Is no compensation payable to a worker who partially loses his sight, and asks that this be also amended. Road workers are firm in their belief that their occupation gives rise to cancer, and kindred diseases.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 8
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109ASKS FOR PROTECTION FOR WORKERS ON ROADS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 8
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