§ 76. Mr. VIANTasked the Minister of Labour if he has considered the position of a workman who has been a contributor to the Unemployment Insurance Fund from its inception, becomes a local government employé, and, as a result, ceases 2229 to be a contributor to the fund, but after a few years is dismissed, and finds himself unable to present a card at the Employment Exchange with the necessary stamps qualifying him for benefit; and what instructions are given for the guidance of officials of Employment Exchanges in dealing with such cases?
§ Mr. BETTERTONThe case supposed is, I assume, that of a local government employé on the permanent staff covered by a certificate of exception from unemployment insurance. Contributions are payable for the first three years on the permanent staff, and the risk of unemployment is covered for the period for which these contributions remain valid. After that period the employé ceases to be entitled to unemployment benefit, and this must obviously be the effect of a certificate of exception which after three years relieves him and his employer from liability to pay contributions. The instructions to exchanges give effect to this rule. I may add that any discharges of persons covered by a certificate, if notified to the Department, are inquired into with a view to seeing whether the conditions under which the certificate was issued are complied with.