TRANSFER OF MEN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 16

TRANSFER OF MEN

BOOT TRADE FACTORIES PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYEES STATE WAGE SUBSIDY APPRENTICESHIP PLAN (Tor Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. Following representations made (by the hoot manufacturers throughout the Dominion regarding the shortage of skilled workers, the 'Minister of Labour, the iHon. P. C. Webb, now announces the introduction of a scheme for the transfer of workers from pulblic works and scheme 13 to the iboot industry. The object of the scheme is to train. New Zealand workers to take up additional work resulting from the increased orders flowing to the Dominion manufacturers of footwear as a result of the import control system. The scheme has a twofold object, in that it aims not only at assisting the manufacturers to obtain skilled labour, but also at transferring workers from public works and scheme 13 to take their place in New Zealand secondary industries. Contract for 2i Years

All workers engaged under this scheme must be apprenticed under written contracts of apprenticeship. Any person desiring to take advantage of the subsidy, whether employer or worker, .may obtain full particulars from the placement offices or the district offices of the Department of Labour. In every case the contract shall toe for a period of 2J years, the. rate of payment toeing in the first halfyear £4 5s a week, in the second halfyear £4 10s, third half-year £4 15s, fourth half-year £5, fifth half-year £5.

Towards these wages the department will, in approved cases, refund to the employer the following subsidies:— First half-year, £1 15s; second halfyear, £1 10s; third 'half-year, £1 ss; fourth half-year, £1; fifth half-year, 10s.