AUXILIARY WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 126, 21 February 1941, Page 9

AUXILIARY WORKERS

Appointment Of Council

Provision is made in regulations gazetted last night for the appointment of a Dominion Auxiliary Workers 'Training Council to formulate and recommend training schemes at technical schools and elsewhere for the purpose of training auxiliary workers, to put into operation any approved scheme, to arrange for the establishment of local councils, and to co-ordin-ate their activities, and to arrange for the placing of auxiliary workers in industry on the completion of their training and to follow their progress after they enter industry.

'The council will comprise such representatives of the employers, workers and Government departments as the Minister of Labour thinks fit, the chairman to be appointed by the Minister.

Regulations also provide for the appointment by tho Minister, on the recommendation of the council, of a salaried organizer of emergency training to direct tho work, and for the establishment where required of local councils. The regulations specify that an auxiliary worker, on completion of training, is not to be engaged while there is a qualified worker in lhe same class out of employment on the register of llie local union, and m> qualified worker is |o bi- dismissed because an auxiliary worker has been engaged.