Social Insurance. Workmen’s Compensation. Proposals for an Industrial Injury Insurance Scheme. Presented by the Minister of Reconstruction to Parliament by Command of His Majesty

6. The amount of compensation was fixed not on the Common Law principle of indemnity for injury due to the fault of another but on the principle of a division of loss between the employer and the workman ; it was related subject to maxima to the average earnings of the workman and it took no account of his family responsibilities. [...] The effect would be that the whole liability in the non-hazardous industries and part of the liability in the hazardous industries would be pooled and the balance amounting to two-thirds of the excess cost in.the hazardous induaries would be met by the special levy on those industries. [...] The proposals which the Government do not accept are—. (a) the limitation of special rates of benefit for industrial disability to cases of more than thirteen weeks duration ; (b) the proposal to relate industrial pensions for long term disability to the earnings of the workman bf;fore the accident in eases of total incapacity and to his earnings both before and after the accident in cases of pa [...] (i) Although the Scheme will be separate from the general scheme of social insurance the.nee ministration of the two schemes should be integrated to the facet possible extent ; and for this reason and on grounds of economy the Government propose that the general administration and supevision of the working of the Industrial Injury Insurance Scheme should be entrusted to the Authority respon [...] (iii) Where the workman was in receipt at the time of death of an allowance in respect of virtual unemployability the widow's pension and the allowance in respect of a first child will be payable irrepective of the date of marriage or the date of the birth of the child.