MANPOWERED WORKERS

Chronicle (Levin), 24 May 1946, Page 7

MANPOWERED WORKERS

—Press Association

— - — ■ RE-EMPLOYMENT SAFEGUAKDED

By Telearavh-

WELLINGTON, May 28. Thc 'right of reinstatcment in. tlieir former "employment, is granted to manpcwcred workers by an auiQndment to the Occupational ' Keestabli'shmentv Enier'g-oncy iibgul.atib.us ' gazetted this ' ovening. Tlie ' iiidusfrial ' Ma'npower Emergency ' Ke'gulUtioils prOyide that workers directed under tliese regulations are to have tlie riglit to reinstatement in.their pr'edirection 'emploj'ment and the aniendmcnt giycs'cffect to 'that provi'sion and iixes the tinxes witliin which. application" for reinstatcmeh't rnust be made. To enablc' a smooth chaxxge over to be eff'ected three montlis are alioVved fo'f ' a workc'r to' 'elect whetlier he will. cpntinue iix lxis waH timo' calliixg oi rbturn to his ' prediTection calling. thus obviating any dislocation that uiight follow if all directed workers in an undertaking had to leave vvithixi a nxoixth. of the revocation of the lndustrial iManpowcr Emergency Kegnlatious in order to ensure reinstatement. lf a worker is dismissed or Tesigns (with leave of the Manpower oiticer) froxn his directed employment, he is given oue montli to take his applica t:on for reinstatement, which is the period allowed by the reguhrtions for tuembers of the Armed Forces on tlieir xelease in New Zealand from military service, but so long as he continues iu liis directed employment after the revocation of the lndustrial Manpower Emergency Kcgulations, he. has three months to niake his electioii. Anotlier regulation in the aniendmcnt preserves the right of reinstatement of memberS of the Women 's Land Service which was originally part of the Eiuergency Keserve Corps. The position of incmbers of the educational service of tlie K.X.Z.A.F. is also safeguarded. The first incmbers of tliis service were cngageil for some three nionths in a civilian capaeity but later thc service was incorporatcd in the K.X.Z.A.F. Thc amendnicut inakeiit clcar that thc regiilations. apply so as lo require a worker 's reinstatement by j the exnployer by Avhom he was employed before bcginning as an iustructor in thc Air Force. Tliero are also regiilations relating to ccrtaiii classes of workers whosc riglit to prouiotion is govcrned in p'art by seniority in tlie service of a partieular eni))loyer. 'J'hey preservo tlie right of reinstatement with seniority so that thc worker does not lose seniority as a roxult of liis military service, tlie basis--adojited -being that where tliere have been largc mnnbers taken on to fill vacancies during the war,';fhe iinal ad;justment of the stalf will be that the last takou on are to be the iirst to go off.