BAR Autumn conference
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AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION is becoming very much the order of things at transport conferences this year. Following in the wake of the successful RHA Conference last month, the British Association of Removers met in the Park Lane Hotel, London, on Tuesday and once again the delegates were invited to join in.
Mr Tony Richman of Rings of Rochester, chairman of the association's labour relations committee together with six of his committee members formed a panel to lead discussion on a number of topics connected with industrial legislation. Mr Richman told the delegates that it was their intention to try to assist BAR members, especially the smaller operators who find their way through the great legal maze of industrial relations in which many of the members were lost. Dealing with maternity pay he said that provided the employee gave three weeks notice then the employer must hold her job open for thirty nine weeks provided of course she indicated her intention to return. This in Mr Boxall's view presented problems because as he saw it every employee leaving on maternity leave would automatically give notice of intending return, but might have a change of mind before the end of the 39 weeks. In the meantime temporary labour had to be engaged.
Dealing with medical suspension payments he said that employees who contracted an infection at work were of course entitled to pay but pointed out that if an employee was unable to work because the place where he had to be for his employment carried some kind of infection the man must receive a guaranteed wage.