SICKNESS BENEFIT
Effect Of Subsidy By Employer The Makara County Council recently asked the Minister of Social Security, Mr. Parry, if it could subsidise the wages of an employee on sick benefit. At yesterday’s meeting of the council, a re P*s was received from the Minister, in which he stated that if the subsidy exceeded the limits set an adjustment would have to be made in the amount of the benefit P!l "Siraply iniquitous,” remarked the chairman, Mr. B. W. Bothamley, when the Minister’s reply had been read. "Whether the idea is to extract more money from generous employers, or to keep the level of a sick man down to bedrock, L don't know. Surely when a man is sic-x is the time when he needs more money. If we pay a reasonable sum while he is ill, he can’t get social security. The Government is taking a mean advantage of a liberal employer.” On the motion of Cr. E. Windley. it was decided to inform the Minister that the council considered that the Social Security Act should be amended to provide for a just payment to sick employees. ___________
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 193, 13 May 1944, Page 6
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189SICKNESS BENEFIT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 193, 13 May 1944, Page 6
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