§ Mr. BARRasked the Minister of Labour, seeing that certain occupations are allowed to rank as excepted employments under the Unemployment Insurance Acts by reason of the employers guaranteeing continuous work, either for all their employés or for those with a certain period of service, and that it is a condition of his certifying such occupations as excepted that the employed person is not subject to dismissal, except for misconduct or for neglect of or unfitness to perform his duties, whether his Department regards the event of a strike as releasing the employer entirely from such an obligation or as bound, after a settlement of the strike, to take his employés back as soon as possible under the guaranteed conditions?
§ Mr. BETTERTONThe conditions laid down by Statute for the issue of a certificate of exception for unemployment insurance would not be invalidated if the employment of particular individuals was terminated by a strike on their part.
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§ Mr. BARRasked the Minister of Labour whether workpeople employed in an excepted occupation, on being thrown idle, are paid unemployment benefit in respect of contributions made by them prior to their entering excepted unemployment; and whether, if this practice has not obtained in the past, he will by Regulation secure its adoption for the future?
§ Mr. BETTERTONThe payment of standard benefit in such cases is only possible subject to the statutory condition that 20 contributions should have been paid since the beginning of the last insurance year. Normally, extended benefit also would be disallowed if this condition is not satisfied.