§ 31. Sir A. SHIRLEY BENNasked the Minister of Labour whether a man who has signed on as unemployed for three days can at any time thereafter if he should be unemployed for six consecutive days obtain unemployment pay for such time as he remains unemployed; and whether, in the case of a man working three or four days a week and drawing unemployment pay, inquiry is made into the man's monthly earnings from casual labour before the unemployment donation is issued?
§ Sir R. HORNEAs regards the first part of the question, the rule is that an applicant for out-of-work donation must at the outset be unemployed for three consecutive working days before he becomes entitled to receive donation. He is not paid for those three days, but thereafter he is entitled, subject to the usual condi- 1996 tions, to receive payment in respect of each day of unemployment until he obtains work (or fails to prove that he is out of work) for six consecutive working days. He must then serve a further waiting period of three days before becoming again entitled to donation. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative. It would not be practicable to act upon the suggestion contained in it.