GOVERNMENT INSISTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 180, 2 August 1940, Page 2

GOVERNMENT INSISTS

SOLDIERS’ RE-EMI’LOYMENT ON DISCHARGE. QUESTION AND ANSWER. WELLINGTON, July 31. An assurance that compliance with the regulations requiring employers to reinstate soldiers in their civil occupations after service will be insisted on was given by the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, in reply to an urgent question asked by Mr. Frost (Government, New Plymouth). Mr. Frost quoted a case where a married man discharged after two months in camp owing to flat feet found his civilian job taken by a single man 24 years of age, and was told by the employer that he was not prepared to reinstate him as it would not be fair to the new man. "I understand that the local inspector of factories is making inquiries to-day into that case," the Prime Minister replied. “Clause 4 of the Occupational Re-establishment Emergency regulations, 1939, provides that ‘it shall be the duty of any employer by whom or by the predecessor of whom a person accepted for service in His Majesty’s Forces, whether in New Zealand or overseas, was employed when accepted to reinstate him in his employment at the termination of that service or during any period of leave from that service without pay in an occupation and under conditions not less favourable to him than those he would have had if he had not gone on military service.”