New Concessions on Compensation
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NEW draft regulations on compensation for employees of road haulage undertakings compulsorily acquired by the British Transport Commission have been published. They have two effects.
They enable persons who were employees of a haulage undertaking when it was acquired by the Commission, but who for some part of the period from January I, 1940, to the date of acquisition were owners or partowners of the business and not employees, to qualify for compensation.
Secondly, they make it possible for a period of engagement in Aor Blicence work as an owner or partowner of a haulage business to be reckoned as whole-time service in computing compensation. A claim for compensation in respect of a past loss, or a request for the review of an award already made, must be submitted within 13 weeks of the Transferred Undertakings (Compensation to Employees) (Amendment) Regulations, 1953, coming into force. That date is not yet known.