POST WAR EMPLOYMENT
LEGISLATION IN BRITAIN. REINSTATEMENT OF SERVICE MEN & WOMEN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 13. The men and women in the forces are to get their old jobs at the old rates of pay, or else to receive compensation. This is one of the provisions of the Government’s Reinstatement in Civil Employment Bill, the text of which has just been issued. Other provisions are: (1) The applications to employers are to be made by the fifth Monday after demobilisation; (2.) if the old job is not available on reasonable grounds there must be reinstatement in the most favourable alternative job practicable; (3) there must be employment for at least 26 weeks; (4) long-service employees must not be dismissed to makes forces reinstatement possible; (5.) if there are two applicants the one with the longest service with the firm has preference; (6) committees are to be set up to handle disputes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1944, Page 3
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