CHANGE IN AWARD
APPRENTICE CARPENTERS The Court of Arbitration, Westland Industrial District, has announced an alteration to the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Apprenticeship Order. Clause 8 has been deleted and the following clause substituted: — ‘The minimum weekly rates of wages payable to apprentices shall be the undermentioned percentages of an amount equal to 40 tim : ?s the nominal hourly rate of wages for journeymen carpenters and joiners, as prescribed by the award or agreement relating to the employment of such journeymen in force from time to time in the locality.” . An apprentice commencing his apprenticeship while under 18 years of age will receive 23 per cent, of a journeyman’s wage, with an increase of 6 per cent, every six months until after four years and a-half he is receiving 77 per cent. In the case of an apprentice commencing when over eighteen he will receive 35 per cent, for the first six months, rising in 6 per cent, increments to 89 per. cent, after four and a-half years. The change in the award is retrospective to July 1, 1945.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1945, Page 9
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