Report of the Committee on Unemployment Insurance in Agriculture (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330785515
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Unemployment Insurance in Agriculture 4. The terms of the reference did not appear to contemplate the consideration of any method of dealing with unemployment in agriculture other than by insurance under the Unemployment Insurance Act, but the Committee considered that proposals for a purely voluntary scheme outside the Act should not be excluded. There are three methods by which insurance against unemployment may be possible: (1) by the inclusion of the industry of agriculture in the general scheme provided by the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920, (2) by the adoption of a special scheme for agriculture under Section 18 of the Act, or (3) by a purely voluntary scheme outside the Act. Before either of these methods could be adopted certain preliminaries are necessary. 5. By virtue of paragraph "a" in Part II. of the First Schedule to the Act of 1920 employment in agriculture, including horticulture and forestry, is excepted from the scope of the insurance scheme, and neither employers nor workers in that industry are liable to pay the contributions required of employers and workers in almost every other industry. But by Section 4 "The Minister (of Labour) may, with the approval of the Treasury by order provide for including among the persons employed within the meaning of this Act any persons engaged in any of the excepted employments specified in Part II. of the First Schedule to this Act, in any class or description of the persons so engaged, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as may be specified in the Order. Before any such Order is made a draft thereof shall be laid before each House of Parliament for a period of not less than twenty days during which the House is sitting, and if either House, before the expiration of that period, present an address to His Majesty against the draft or any part thereof, no further proceedings shall be taken thereon, but without prejudice to the making of any new draft order." No definition is given in the Act of the words agriculture, horticulture or forestry, but Section 10 provides that "if any question arises as to whether any employment or any class of employment is or will be employment within the meaning of this Act, or whether a person is or was an employed person within the meaning of this Act, the question shall be decided by the Minister (of Labour) provided that (i) any person aggrieved by the decision of the Minister on any such question may appeal from that decision to the High Court, (ii) the Minister may if he thinks fit instead of himself deciding any such question refer the question for decision to the high Court. The Minister may, on new facts being brought to his notice revise any decision given by him under this Section, other than a decision against which an appeal is pending or as respects which the time for appealing has not expired, and an appeal shall be against any such revised decision in the same manner as against an original decision." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.