HC Deb 11 August 1919 vol 119 cc888-9
96. Mr. RAPER

asked the Minister of Labour if he will consider the advisability of issuing cards to all applicants for work sent to employers from Unemployment Bureaux, on which such employers to whom the men are sent should be required to endorse briefly their reason for being unable to engage the applicant?

Mr. WARDLE

The hon. Member's suggestion has been anticipated, in the sense that the introduction card now issued by Employment Exchanges to applicants for work, who are sent to employers, contains a space in which employers are invited to give any appropriate remarks. I am afraid it would not be possible to go so far as to require employers to state their reasons for not accepting a particular applicant.