§ 8. Sir Irving Alberyasked the Minister of Labour what redress or compensation is available to a worker with a family who is directed from his usual employment to work of national importance on the Clyde and is then deprived of his employment and remuneration owing to local strikes in which he is not directedly interested?
§ Mr. BevinIn the kind of employment to which I think my hon. Friend is referring, the Essential Work Order provides that the worker shall, in these circumstances, continue to be entitled to his guaranteed wage unless the employer has given him four days' notice of its suspension. If the guaranteed wage is suspended, the worker is free to leave the employment immediately without special permission and can take other work.
§ Sir I. AlberyMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman why in that case, when I drew his attention to a case in particular where a man had been refused permission to take up his original employment, which was again offered, and also got no wages, he made the reply which he did?
§ Sir I. AlberyThe point is that in his reply the right hon. Gentleman did not state what he stated to-day, neither has that action been carried out.