ABSTRACT
The work of the Ministries attempting to deal with the two problems i.e., the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Social Security, must be seen as complementary. Complete eradication of unemployment is not only impossible but some would say inadvisable. There is a need of more training facilities, of social work helps to the unemployed and of better geographical distribution of industry. There has always been a very small number of cases where insurance officers feel, rightly or wrongly, that the unemployed are malingering. These are difficult cases and in the absence of any evidence it is impossible to know whether insurance officers have been able to deal with them satisfactorily. The reason for the wage-stop measure is 'to secure that claimants generally are not better off when sick or unemployed than they would be at work'. An employee is dismissed because of redundancy where 'the work on which he was employed has disappeared' irrespective of the reasons.
