Peace-time Work
EN and women in the forces are to get their old jobs at the old rates of pay, or else receive compensation. This is one of the provisions of the Government’s Reinstatement in Civil Employment Bill, the text of which has just been issued. Other _ provisions are:-(1) Applications to employers to be made by the fitth Monday after demobilisation; (2) if the old job is not available on _ reasonable grounds, there must be reinstatement in the most favourable alternative job practicable; (3) there must be employment for at least 26 weeks; (4) long-service employees must not be dismissed to make a member of the forces’ reinstatement. possible; (5) if there are two applicants for reinstatement, the one with the longest service with the firm has preference; (6) committees are to be set up to handle disputes. London newspapers give a general welcome to the plan, but many point out that some of Britain’s largest industries have been concentrated, many businesses have changed _ character, and some have disappeared altogether. In addition, some of those who went to war as little more than boys, will come back as men wanting men’s jobs. -Cable from London. .%
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 240, 28 January 1944, Page 6
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195Peace-time Work New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 240, 28 January 1944, Page 6
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