Supplementary memorandum submitted by
David Overton
Please find enclosed a copy of my letter to
your colleague on the Select Committee.
Perhaps it would have been prudent for someone
to have taken legal advice a long while ago.
As I have said in my letter there has been no
"security of tenure" for many bookmakers since the NJPC
took over. This included family businesses with 20 years behind
them.
My father took over the family business which
was started by his father soon after the first world war.
My father transferred from the silver ring into
Tatts in 1978 and I took over in 1987. I have had no rights to
go to work on many days since the NJPC took over. Yet some bookmakers
with little or no seniority were guaranteed to work.
I find it incredible that some of those people
speaking before the Select Committee have the temerity to ask
for security of tenure when it was they that have denied the very
same to others since October 1998.
November 2007
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