FIRM’S ACTION

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 10

FIRM’S ACTION

Criticism By Manpower Committee The action of a firm in addressing, at the last moment before an appeal was' due to be heard, a letter to the Manpower Industrial Committee reversing its original statement, to the district manpower officer that it wished to retain tne services of certain workers, was adversely criticized at the hearing of an appeal before the committee. The deputy-chairman of the committee, Mr. J. J; Scott, said that the firm put 111 a statement which he did not like from the moment he saw it. They could n°lbe cross-examined, but had made allegations against the workers, _ saying they were of - the type which stirred up disaffection 011 lhe job. . The district manpower officer: VVliat is the date of the letter? The chairman: Today's date. The -district manpower officer: My position ■is very difficult. The firm sajs in the- first place that they want to hoid a worker, and I have to make my decision on the facts as before me at a certain date. If an employer subsequently changes his mind, as has been done in this case, the manpower office would, as a natural course with an application to terminate employment, grant permission. . , . , The chairman: I do not think there is any reflection on the manpower office.