APPRENTICES’ PAY

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1932, Page 4

APPRENTICES’ PAY

MAGISTRATE MAKES AN ORDER. (Per P'-es s Association— Copyright ) WELLINGTON, October 14. A reduction of 25 per cent, in the present rates of pay, and a system of rationing work so that apprentices will work three weeks of every four and will r. jfke up and be paid for lost time, at the end of each apprentice year, before starting on the next, was contained in an order made by Air McNeil, S.M., to-day, in connection with twenty-eight applications by sixteen master plumbers for variation in their existing .Apprenticeship contracts. The cases were heard last Tuesday. BOOT TRADE AGREEMENT. WELLINGTON, October 14. Representatives of the workers in the hootmaking industry came to an agreement in the Conciliation Council to-day. There will be preference for unionists. There is provision for payment of overtime, and a disputes and advisory committee comprising two representatives from each side, with an independent chairman, will he appointed in each industrial centre to whom disputes arising out of the a will’d must bo referred before going to Court.

AGREEMENT REACHED. NELSf N, October 13. An application fo»- a new award in respect to Kirkpatrick and Co.’s jam factorv was heal’d before the Conciliation Commissioner, Air E. AY. Johns, when a full ac-eement on the employer’s new conditions was reached, except the term of the award, which was agreed on for one year. The Commissioner congratulated the parties on the amicable agreement.