WAGES SUBSIDIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 237, 7 October 1942, Page 4

WAGES SUBSIDIES

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PLANS FOR EX-SERVICEMEN (0.C.) WELLINGTON, this day. A liberal scale of pay for exservicemen who are selected by the Rehabilitation Board for industrial training, has been recommended tentatively by the board's training committee. The proposed rates range up to £6 per week in the last half of the third year of training.

Full-time courses of instruction of an intensive nature will be given in a Government training centre or trade school, or at technical colleges, with or without a subsequent period as an improves The scheme, according to the details given by Mr. Moohan (chairman of the board), will also cover training in private employ or in Government workshops, where the number of candidates will not warrant the formation of a special class, or where other reasons make this desirable.

Selection of trainees will be controlled by the board in conjunction with its district committees. The Government will advance the cost of tools, this being repayable on terms mutually arranged. Candidates will be required to agree to remain for a minimum of three years in the industry for which they are trained.

Three classes of trainees are proposed: Class A, comprising those who will be given a maximum of 12 months' training in a Government training centre, such as the carpentry ones already established, or at a technical college, followed by a period, not exceeding two years, as an improver.

Class B trainees are to get the whole of their training under adult apprenticeship with private employers on a subsidised basis. During their first two years they must be allowed time off to attend trade classes to the extent of not less than two half days, or one whole day per working week.

A detailed scliedule of rates of pay and subsidies has been prepared by the board's committee, the maximum being £(j per week. The scales of pay and subsidies are based on the following: A tradesman's rate of £5 10/; a cost of living bonus equal to 10/ weekly; subsidies (where no previous training has been given in a training centre or technical school) ranging from 50 per cent of the total wage during the first period, to 10 per cent in the fifth period, plus an additional subsidy of 10/ weekly in the period when trainees attend technical college classcs during working hours.