APPRENTICES AND THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1917, Page 5

APPRENTICES AND THE WAR.

PROVISIONS OP AWARDS MODIFIED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Gazette published regulation? modifying the provisions of all awards and industrial agreements so far as they affect the employment of apprentices becoming .members of ihe Expeditionary Force. It is provided that if any apprentice subject to an 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 may at any time after the said apprentice has been not less than a month in camp or left New Zealand with the force (whichever happens) engage a new apprentice in lieu of such first-mentioned apprentice, and may continue to employ such a new apprentice for the full period of his apprenticeship, notwithstanding the return to his employ of the first-men-tioned apprentice. In the ( event of such new apprentice becoming a member of the Expeditionary Force, the foregoing provisions apply in the same manner as if had been lawfully engaged otherwise than pursuant to this order-in-council. Any apprentice as aforesaid who has become a member of the Expeditionary Force may, on ceasing to be a member of the force, be re-employer ns an apprentice by the former employer, or, with the consent of an inspector of factor!"*. by any other employer engaged in the same industry, and niay continue to be employed until the period of apprenticeship is completed, notwithstanding thereby the number of apprentices employed by an employer may exceed the number otherwise allowed by the law.