EMPLOYMENT OF BOYS
IN MOTOR TRADE The employment of boys was the biggest obstacle encountered in the framing of the new award for the motor trade, which came into force this week for a period of two years, and was more difficult to overcome than either hours or wages. The employers’ view was that a good deal of the unskilled work could be done quite efficiently by youths, and that it was uneconomic to employ men to do boys’ work. On the other hand, the workers feared that a greater employment of boys would mean more unemployment of men, and if they had their way boy labour in the motor trade would be very much more restricted than it is under present conditions. Under the new award, boys may be employed (1) as apprentices or assistants (according to whether an apprenticeship order is in force) ; (2) assistants to vulcanisers; (3) assistants at assembly work (under certain conditions) ; (4) assistants to garage attendants. The new award is. if anything, rather more favourable to the employer.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 21
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