APPRENTICESHIP ORDER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23941, 17 October 1939, Page 3

APPRENTICESHIP ORDER

SOLID PLASTERING INDUSTRY OTAGO PROVINCIAL DISTRICT The Industrial Magistrate (Mr J. A. Gilniour) has issued an apprenticeship order for the solid plastering industry within the Otago provincial district. Included in the order, which embodies the recommendations of the Apprenticeship Committee, are the following clauses:— The minimum age at which a person n.ay commence to serve as an apprentice shall be 14 years. The term of apprenticeship shall be five years. The proportion of apprentices to Journeymen shall be as follows:—One apprentice to every two journeymen employed; end in computing the number of Journeymen, the employer shall be reckoned as one journeyman. For the purpose of determining the proportion of apprentices to Journeymen in taking on a new apprentice, the calculation shall be based upon two-thirds full-time employment of the journeymen employed during the previous six calendar months. The minimum rates of wages shall be:— During the first six months of the apprenticeship, £1 per week; second six months, £1 ss; third six months, £1 10s; fourth six months, £1 15s; fifth six months. £2; sixth six months, £2 ss; seventh six months, £2 10s; eighth six months, £2 15s; ninth six months. £3: tenth six months. £3 ss. The hours worked by an apprentice shall, subject to the provisions of any statute, be those normally worked by Journeymen in accordance with the provisions of the award or industrial agreement relating to the employment of journeymen for the time being in force in the district, provided that no apprentice under 16 years of age is permitted to be employed for a greater number of hours than nine on any one day. The minimum rates of overtime payment for apprentices shall be Is per hour for the first year and shall be increased in ratio to the wages each year for the remainder of the period of the apprenticeship. , „ . . For " country work " as defined by any award for the time being in force in the Industry in the district, apprentices shall be paid in respect of all time worked in excess of eight hours on the first five days of the week (Monday to Friday inclusive) or on Saturday, at the following rates:— During the first two years and a-half of the apprenticeship. Is an hour; and during the latter two years and a-half of the apprenticeship, at the rate of Is 6d an hour. The powers and discretions provided for In section 13 of the Apprentices Act, 1923, may be exercised by the district registrar and the Apprenticeship Committee, notwithstanding that the employer to whom it is proposed to transfer an apprentice is already employing the full quota of apprentices as determined by this order. Every employer desiring to employ an apprentice in any branch or branches of the trade shall, before engaging the proposed apprentice, make i application in writing to the Apprenticeship Committee, and the committee shall either grant orrefuse the apprentice, after inquiring into facilities within the scope of the proposed employer's business for teaching the proposed apprentice the branch or branches of the trade.