Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Minister of Labour if he will state the reason why persons employed by municipal authorities to clean municipal lodging-houses are excluded from unemployment insurance on the ground that they are not employed in a trade or business carried on for purposes of gain while persons employed by municipal authorities on the making of roads are not excluded for the same reason?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI would refer my hon. Friend to the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920. Paragraph (b) of Part II of the First Schedule of that Act excepts domestic servants from unemployment insurance, save where they are employed in a trade or business carried on for the purposes of gain. This exception applies only to domestic servants. In the case of other workers, the question whether or not they are employed in a trade or business for the purposes of gain has no bearing on their liability to unemployment insurance.