TRADE TRAINEES

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23259, 21 July 1945, Page 7

TRADE TRAINEES

Wages To Be Increased (N.Z.P.A.I WELLINGTON, July 19. The Minister of Rehabilitation (the Hon. F. Skinner> announced to-night that the Rehabilitation Board had decided to reflect in its trade trainingsubsidies and wages the determination of the Arbitration Court in respect of the amount and commencing date of the general increase already granted or to be granted. In the case of subsidised training by private employers, the Board will meet the relative proportion of the total wages, as at present. For instance, if the subsidy'is 30 per cent, of the present wage, the Board will pay 30 per cent, of the increased wage. The wages of trainees would be increased by 10'- a week. The Minister added this would be retrospective to April 1 and would mean that the commencing wage would be £5,15-0 a week, mid the increase to apply to the higher wages paid as the course proceeded. The Minister said many employers had made the increase as trom April 1. but others hud delayed pending the Board's decision. He hoped that all employers would now adopt the new scale and apply for reimbursement of the increased subsidy as from the date announced by the Arbitration Court for the trade concerned. The Board's relative share of wages would apply to revised apprenticeship where, flic wages were subsidised.