Miss Rathboneasked the Minister of Labour, whether he is aware that many women are being deterred from taking war work by the refusal of their employers to promise them reinstatement after the war and their consequent fears that the girls below registration age now being taken on will permanently supersede them; and whether he is doing anything to persuade or compel employers to act more generously and patriotically in this matter?
§ Mr. AsshetonI would refer my hon. Friend to the replies which my right hon. Friend gave to the hon. and gallant Member for Holland with Boston (Lieutenant Butcher) on 9th October, 1941, and the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Lipson) on 16th October, 1941.