RESTRICTIONS MODIFIED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3099, 1 June 1917, Page 6

RESTRICTIONS MODIFIED

THE EMPLOYMENT.OP APPRENTICES. ..Regulations modifying the provisions of all awards and industrial agreements, in so far as they prevent or restrict the employment of apprentices, were gazetted last night. The regulations deal particularly with apprentices who mar become members of the Expeditionary Force. It is provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any industrial award or industrial agreement— (a) If any apprentice subject to'such award or agreement has become and;now is a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, or hereafter becomes a member of that Force, his employer mav. after the apprentice has been for not less than one month in camp, or has left New Zealand with that Force (irliichever first happens), engage a new apprentice in lieu of such first-mentioned apprentice, and mav continue to employ such new apprentice for the full period of his apprenticeship, notwithstanding the return to his employ of the firstmentioned apprentice. (b) Tn the event of any such new apprentice becoming a member of the Expeditionary Force, the foregoing provisions shall apply in the same manner as if such new apprentice had been lawfully engaged otherwise •than pursuant to this regulation. (c) Any apprentice as aforesaid who has (whether before or after the date of the regulation) become a member of the Expeditionary Force may, on his boiiiz discharged from camp without beitin discharged from the Expeditionary Force, be re-employed as an apprentice by his former employer, or, with the consent of an Inspector of Factories authorised in that behalf by the Chief Inspector of Factories, by any other emplover engaged in the same industry, and may continue to be so employed until the period of his apprenticeship has been completed, notwithstanding that ! i| hereby the number of apprentices employed by Iho employer may exceed the number ihaf would be otherwise by law allowed.