EMPLOYMENT OF APPRENTICES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 May 1926, Page 5

EMPLOYMENT OF APPRENTICES

IMPORTANT POINT REGARDING TRANSFER, SETTLED.

(by TKLEGEAPH PBESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, May 6.

An important matter brought before the Arbitration Ciourt in Auckland was that dealing with, the transfer of apprentices, whose employers had not been alble to discharge their obligation® to, apprentices whom it was found impossible to transfer, owing to other employers having /already their full quota, of apprentices. The Court has now decided that the powers and discretions provided for in section thirteen ol the Apprentices, Act may he exercised by the district registrar and the apprenticeship committee, not withstanding that the employer to whom it is proposed, to, transfer an apprentice has already his full, quota as determined by the order in the memorandum. The Court states that this order has been made in response to representations made to the Court by the district registrar of apprentices at Auckland.

It appeared that the difficulty had arisen owing to the number of firms becoming insolvent and going out of business, leaving their apprentices unprovided for, and without effective redress: Suitable employers were willing to employ them but we re .prevented by the inidivddual proportion clauses from doing iso. Tire present order was intended to meet such positions. It did not, of course, operate so as. to increase the total JjMinber of apprentices in, the district, but it provided the mean® of absorbing the existing apprentices who would otherwise have no opportunity of completing their training. Following am application by the Apprenticeship Committee in the motor engineering industry, the Court, has made ain order calling, upon every employer of an apprentice, to- the- trade of motor- mechanic within a. radius of twelve miles of the Seddon Memorial Technical College at Auckland, to- pay the sum of 10s in respect of every apprentice employed by him in the trade between the date of the order and December 31, 1925. and also in respect of every apprentice employed by him during 1926. •