HC Deb 01 March 1944 vol 397 c1442
Mr. McCorquodale

I beg to move, in page 4, line 27, at the end, to insert: Provided that if when the applicant last ceased to be employed by his former employer before the beginning of his war service he had been in the continuous employment of that former employer for a consecutive period of not less than fifty-two weeks, the preceding provisions of this section shall have effect as if for the reference to twenty-six weeks there were substituted a reference to fifty-two weeks. (2) In computing the period of continuous employment mentioned in the proviso to the preceding subsection—

  1. (a) where the employment is in an undertaking, and any change has taken place in the person carrying on that undertaking or any other undertaking has become comprised in that undertaking, periods in the employment of the person for the time being carrying on the undertaking or the other undertaking, as the case may be, shall be treated as periods of employment by the former employer;
  2. (b) a person shall not be treated as otherwise than continuously employed by reason of any temporary absence from work."
This Amendment is moved to carry out a pledge which my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour gavel in Committee to consider extending the obligation of the employer to employ the applicant for 52 weeks in the case where the applicant had been employed by the same employer for more than a year continuously before he was called up.

Amendment agreed to.