ENGINEERING TRADES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 57, 29 November 1924, Page 9

ENGINEERING TRADES

POSITION OF APPRENTICES. An application for a Dominion award in connection with apprenticeship in the engineering trades was made in the Arbitration Court, before Mr. Justice Frazer yesterday. It was stated that committees were set up in Otago, Auckland, Canterbury, and Wellington, and the employers had decided to accept the recommendations of the Otago committee subject to certain modifications. It was asked that the proportion of the total number of apprentices to the total number of journeymen employed in dhe industry or by any. employer.shall be not nfore than 2 to 1 in the engineering branch, and 1 to 1 in the moulding and boiler-making branches. The wages asked for were 15s. per week for the first year, 20s. the second year, 255. tho third vear, 30s. the fourth year, and 40s. the fifth year. All time, lost by an apprentico in any year by his own default or sickness, or for any cause not directly connected with the business of the employer, to be made up by him, before he shall be considered to have entered on the next succeeding year ot his apprenticeship, or if tn iihe final year, to have completed his apprenticeship. The minimum rates of overtime payment for apprentices snail bo proportionate to and in correspondence with those fixed by the award for journeymen.