UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14254, 3 January 1920, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE

THE BRITISH BILL. FAR-REACHING PROPOSALS. STATUTORY SUPERANNUATION (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 3rd, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, December 31. The Unemployed Insurance Bill extends the insurance against unemployment on a contributory basis to substantially the .whole of the employed population between the ages of 16 and 7.0. The- total number of workers—manual and non-manual—affected is estimated at 11,750,000, as compared with 3,333.000 covered by the existing scheme. Opportunity will be given for industries tu contract out of the general scheme by setting up a special scheme such as may be approved by the Minister of Labour, and which.may give equal or superior advantagesThe scheme will come into operation on October 1. Agriculture and domestic service are not included in the scheme, and other exceptions include persons other than manual labourers earning more than £250 a year; employees of public authorities, police, railway servants, or employees of other statutory undertakings where such persons have rights under a statutory superannuation fund, making insurance against unemployment unnecessary. The weekly contributions van' from threepence a week for girls to sixpence a week- for men, the employees and the employers contributing half each, with the Stafce adding a sum equal to onethird of these contributions. The rates benefit vary from 6s a week for girls to 15s for men.