UNEMPLOYMENT BILL
AUSTRALIAN PROPOSAL FINANCED BY". WORKERS. EMPLOYERS AND STATE Cnited Press Assn. b» El. Tel. Copyright (Received Feb. 11, 11 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 11.; The Unemployment Bill, which will he introduced in the Assembly shortly, will bo,financed l>y the workers at the rate of threepence a week, and tbe employers threepence, the Government adding a subsidy equal, to the total payment by tbe employees. Professional workers, contractors, and apprentices are not included wi th in the scope of the Bill. A (Yorker must have paid into the fund six months before lie or she becomes entitled to sustenance allowance, winch is limited to fifteen weeks ranging from. 25s weekly in the case of married men to 15s in the ease of'unmarried, ‘.V
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 12 February 1930, Page 5
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