APPRENTICESHIP LAW

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 124, 22 November 1932, Page 6

APPRENTICESHIP LAW

IMPORTANT CHANGES

COUNCIL ESTABLISHED

By the Apprentices Bill which is being , introduced in,, the House of Representatives the Arbitration Court is deprived of its powers of. administration under the Act. These are transferred mainly to an apprenticeship council. The Billis a 'consolidation with amendments, as it is held that a merely amending Bill would leave the present legislation in a form very difficult to comprehend. " • . : The general object of the Bill is to deprive the Arbitration Court of its general administration of the Act. This has been achieved by transferring to the Minister of \ Labour the Court's powers- to | appoint: and discharge apprenticeship committees, and to appqint district registrars to act where there is no committee. The Minister is also given the'pbwer'of applying the operation of the Act to employers and apprentices and exempting them from it. The Apprenticeship Council which the Bill sets up' is- composed of the Registrar of Apprentices, two employ.ers' representatives, and two workers' representatives. To them ,has, been transferred the principal powers of the Arbitration Court. for the making of apprenticeship orders, except the power of.requiring employers to employ apprentices. This latter provision has been dropped. '-.'.. The Court's .power of hearing and" determining appeals also passes to the council. The' Court's control over, the functioning of ■, committees and its power to make apprenticeship orders also pass to -the council and apprenticeship committees -respectively. ■) The Registrar of Apprentices is given wider powers arid fuller responsibility, and the council's resolution can only be passed by, a majority which' includes the registrar; • ■:; ~ ; ' ■ •*■■ ■■■''.' - T.4g.Artitration Court is giveii power to .fix.payments to ,apprentices. .otf the: bankruptcy of an employer. '