Too Many Restrictions on Employment of Apprentices
NO BOYS BEING ABSORBED INTO INDUSTRY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Manufacturers’ Federation conference passed a remit that the Federation favours a review of the Apprenticeship Act, with a view of removing the restrictions and anomalies which interfere with the employment of apprentices “and facilitating the employment of young people,” Mr. J. G. Jeffery (Dunedin) spoke of the propaganda being carried On to increase industry in the Dominion so that they could employ the youth of the country. .Parents were suffering groat anxiety at the present time as during the last year practically no boys had been absorbed into industry, largely due to the restrictions imposed by the Act. Employers were loth to accept tho responsibility of taking apprentices, especially in view of the liability upon them in the event of not being able to retain an apprentice for the full period. Tf the restrictions were cased more apprentices would bo employed. Mr. F. Campbell suggested that the matter was one for employers. It was agreed to forward a copy of the remit to the New Zealand Employers’ Federation.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6633, 21 August 1931, Page 6
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