PAID SICK LEAVE FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS Memorandum by the First Lord of the Adimiralty

seeking when they are absent from work through sickness, but this privilege has been extended to domestic workers in hospitals and similar institutions as a result or the findings of the Hetherington Committee; it is a common-place for long—service employees of municipalities and other public corporations; it is embodied in agreements with trade unions made by individual firms up and down the country. In certain industries which may be regarded as "sheltered" it is a regular feature of all employment; conspicuously successful (competitive and monopolistic) employers, such as Lever Brothers and Imperial Chemical Industries, have found it possible to accord very generous sick leave terms to almost all their workers; and even in parts of the industrial field in which paid sick leave is unknown as a contractual condition of service; it is increasingly common for employers to make concessionary payments to long—service employees when they fall sick.