TEST CASE LIKELY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 October 1941, Page 2

TEST CASE LIKELY

API* RE N TIC E S HIP EMERG E\ t Y REGULATIONS It is understood that a test case will! ■ I shortly be taken in the Arbitration ! j Court to decide the manner in which ! the provisions of an amendment to the [! Suspension of Apprenticeship Emerj'gency Regulations, 1939, is to be ap- • plied. The matter was mentioned in l the annual report submitted to the - Wellington Builders and Contractors’ • Industrial Union of Employers last i night as follows: j "The question of interpretation of 1 the provisions of Amendment No. .2 dated 18th June, 1941. has been the subject of representations to the head office of the Department of Labour, due to the fact that certain workers ; unions have claimed that the amendjinients cannot be applied to any period », of training spent prior to 18th June, ■•j 1941. With this contention we do not . 'agree. "In the meantime, members of the i association should consider time served t jin military training camps prior to 18th ’ June as periods covered by the amendment of 13th June, 1941, it being necesi isary for an apprentice to make up l - these periods at the end of the period - 1 of his apprenticeship. The question of l j the rate of wages to be paid to apprentices during the period of making up - j such lost time is a matter that must ' ! be decided by the Apprenticeship Com. 1 : mittee governing the industry. Appli- • i cation for the rates to be fixed must 1 therefore be made to the secretary of - | the relative Apprenticeship Comf \ mittee.”