MILITARY CAMPS.
PAYMENT OF APPRENTICES. PROTEST BY EMPLOYERS. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.) DUXEDIN, this day. Speaking- at the I , lumbers' Federation conference, the president, Mr. Jenkins. said it had been a very sure [mint, with employers {generally tliat. not only had they tu put up with inconvenience of allowing their apprentices oil' to attend military camps, but they had also to pay them full wages for the time so occupied, notwithstanding the fact that trainees received a minimum payment of 4/ a day from the Defence L)e|«rtment. Mr. Jenkins understood that the New Zealand Employers' Federation had made application to the Arbitration L'oiirt to amend various apprenticeship orders so as to give the. right to Ptnployers to make a rateable deduction lor time lost through any cause over which they had no control. If this could be secured a long standing grievance would be removed. He emphasised the necessity of employers exercising the utmost care in dealing with any matters affecting their relations with their apprentices.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 15
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