WAGES DEDUCTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 7

WAGES DEDUCTIONS

FURNITURE EMPLOYERS’ APPLICATION

Asking a uniform clause for the Dominion governing the conditions under which employers may make de- i ductions from apprentices’ wages, the ; Auckland Furniture and Furnishing Employers approached the Arbitration Court yesterday asking for deletion of the old clause, and the substitution of a new one. The new clause was as follows: “An employer shall be entitled to make a ratable deduction from the wages of an apprentice for all time lost by him through sickness, accident not arising out of and in the course of the employment, default, voluntary absence with the consent of the employer, or any other cause over which the employer has no control.’' Mr. S. E. Wright, for the employers, said the application was being made by employers throughout the Dominion. and they wished evidence to be heard in other centres before a decision was made. Mr. A. H. Dixon, for the union, said that the proposal of the employers would reduce the five years’ apprenticeship contract to a mere hourly rate. I and gave the employers very wide j powers. if an employer lost his key. j or his car broke down on the way to | work, so that the apprentice could not | start, time could be deducted for that, j The court reserved consideration of ! the matter.