APPRENTICESHIP TERMS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 130, 1 June 1917, Page 8

APPRENTICESHIP TERMS

MODIFYING RESTRICTIONS.

In last night's Gazette are published regulations dealing with the conditions of apprenticeship, as under: 1. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any industrial award or industrial agreement,—

(a.) If any apprentice subject to snch award or agreement has heretofore become and now is a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, or hereafter becomes a member of that Force, his employer may, at any time after the said apprentice has been for not less than one month in a camp of military training in connection,with that Force, or has left New Zealand with that Force (whichever first happens), engage a new apprentice in lieu of such first-mention-ed apprentice, and may continue to employ such new apprentice for the full period of his apprenticeship, notwithstanding the return to his employ of the first-mentioned apprentice. (b.) In the event of any such new apprentice as aforesaid becoming a member of the Expeditionary Force, the foregoing provisions shall apply in the same manner as if such new apprentice had been lawfully engaged otherwise than pursuant to this Order in Council. (c.) Any apprentice as aforesaid who has (whether before or after the date of this Order) become a member of the Expeditionary Force may, on his ceasing to be a member of that Force, or on his being discharged from a camp of military training withoai being discharged from the Expeditionary Force, be re-employed ac an apprentice by his former employer, or, with the consent of,an Inspector of Factories authorised in.that behalf by the Chief Inspector of Factories, by any other employer engaged in the same industry, and may contkiua to be so employed until the period of his apprenticeship has been completed, notwithstanding that thereby the number of apprentices employed by the, employer may exceed the number that would be otherwise by law allowed. •