ABSTRACT
The unemployment insurance scheme covers, in general, all persons who are employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship, but there are certain important exceptions. There is the group that is covered by national health insurance and pensions and there is the group that is not. Members of this former group are, in general, eligible for unemployment assistance, but members of the latter group are not, and have only one place of resort—public assistance. The Minority of the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance were prepared to propose that contributions should be demanded from everyone employed under a contract of service; though these contributions would, under their proposed unemployment scheme, have been extremely small ones. The Majority Report of the Royal Commission was in principle in favour of raising the remuneration limit, but as it was felt that the various insurance schemes should as far as possible be co-terminous it was unable to recommend an extension.
