APPRENTICES' PAY
ASSESSMENT OF RATES LEGISLATION ANTICIPATED Legislation passed last session providing that previous experience in a factory, unless in one in which similar work was carried on at the time of employment therein, need not be taken intc consideration in determining wages for apprentices under the Factories Act, will apply, it is now disclosed, to some contracts of apprenticeship entered into before the coming into effect of the amendment to the Act. This is because fiome employers stipulated in sipprenticeship contracts alternative rates to apply in the event of an amendment to the legislation which at that time made it necessary to take in all experience in a factory whether outside of the occupation of the apprentice or not. Among employers there is disappointment that the legislation is confined to the Factories Act only. With equal reason, it is pointed out, it should have been extended to tho Shops and Offices Act. As the position is now, any experience in a shop or office must be counted in fixing the rates for an apprentice to a barber, whereas in a factory tho experience of an apprentice in counted only on work similar to that which he performed before the apprenticeship.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22998, 28 March 1938, Page 10
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201APPRENTICES' PAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22998, 28 March 1938, Page 10
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