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Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 Description English: An Act to make further and better provision for enabling persons handicapped by disablement to secure employment, or work on their own account, and for purposes connected therewith.
Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944. 7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 10. 1 March 1944. An Act to make further and better provision for enabling persons handicapped by disablement ...
In the U.K., the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act of 1944 founded a company primarily to help returning veterans return to work called Remploy. Remploy founded factories across the United Kingdom. In 1986, 55,000 disabled people had been employed in the factories at some point.
Disablement Advisory Committees were established in the United Kingdom by the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944. This was the first attempt to address the question of the employment of disabled people as a whole. [1]
As a direct consequence of the return from war of injured servicemen, [6] [7] the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 was brought into force to enable these to secure employment. [8] [9] After the Second World War, National Assistance was introduced by the National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c.
This act remained the basic Federal law for appointment preference until June 27, 1944, when the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944 was enacted. Two significant modifications were made to the 1919 Act. In 1923, an Executive Order was created which added 10 points to the score of disabled veterans and added 5 points to the scores of non-disabled ...
He chaired the Ministry of Labour's national advisory council on employment for disabled people, which spurred the passing of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944, mandating employers to give jobs to disabled people. He became vice-chairman of Remploy in 1946, and its chairman in 1955.
An Act to amend the Education Acts, 1944 and 1946, the Endowed Schools Acts, 1869 to 1908, the provisions of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, as to children incapable of receiving education, and the provision of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, as to the minimum age of employment. (Repealed by Education Act 1996)