EMPLOYMENT OF APPRENTICES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10109, 1 June 1917, Page 2

EMPLOYMENT OF APPRENTICES.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 31

The Gazette publishes regulations modifying the provisions of all awards and industrial agreements so far as they affect the employment of apprentices becoming members of the Expeditionary Force. It is provided ‘that, if any apprentice subject to an award or agreement has become and now is a mcmbei of the Expeditionary Force, his employer may at any time after (lie said apprentice lias been not less than a. month in camp or left New Zealand with the force (whichever first happens) engage a new apprentice, and may continue to employ such new apprentice for the full period of liis apprenticeship, notwithstanding the return to his employ of the first mentioned apprentice. In the event of such new apprentice becoming a member of the Expeditionary Force the foregoing provisions apply in the same manner as it he had been lawfully engaged otherwise than pur suant to this Order-in-Council. Any apprentice as aforesaid who has become a member of the Expeditionary Force may on ceasing to be a member of the force be re-employed as an apprentice by bis former employer, or with the consent of the Inspector of Factories by any other employer » ngaged in the same industry, and may continue to be employed until the period ot apprenticeship is completed, notwithstanding that thereby the number of apprentices employed by (he employer may exceed the number otherwise by law allowed.