✨ Labour Conditions and Apprenticeship Regulations
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and other conditions of work for all workers coming within the scope of this award shall be fixed by agreement between the employers and the individual workers employed by them.
Scope of Award.
- The operation of this award is limited to an area within a radius of ten miles from the Chief Post-office in the City of Auckland.
Term of Award.
- The period of this award shall terminate on the 31st January, 1914.
T. HARLE GILES,
Conciliation Commissioner.
Auckland Shirt and White Workers: Recommendations of Conciliation Council.
PART I.—CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO FEMALE WORKERS.
Classes of Female Workers.
- The classes of female workers recognized by this award are—journeywomen in charge, journeywomen, apprentices, improvers, examiners, and under-rate workers.
Definitions.
- (a.) A “journeywoman in charge” shall mean one who controls and is responsible for the giving-out, receiving, and efficiency of the work in each section of any branch of the trade.
(b.) A “journeywoman” is one who has served her time as an apprentice at any branch of the trade.
(c.) An “under-rate worker” is one who, having served her apprenticeship and improvership, has her wages fixed in accordance with the clause hereinafter dealing with such cases.
(d.) A female “examiner” shall mean a worker who is held responsible for the proper finishing, folding, and despatch of all goods manufactured in the factory.
Apprentices.
- (a.) The period of apprenticeship for female workers shall be two years, and they shall be paid a minimum wage at the rate of 5s. per week for the first six months, 7s. 6d. per week for the second six months, 10s. per week for the third six months, 12s. 6d. per week for the fourth six months.
(b.) There shall be no limitation to the number of apprentices employed.
(c.) An apprentice shall serve the full period and be taught the branch of the trade to which she is apprenticed.
(d.) It shall be obligatory on the part of the employer to pay the wages stipulated in the award and to teach the apprentice the branch of the trade to which she is apprenticed. Any apprentice who has served a period at a branch of a kindred trade in the same employ shall have such time counted as part of the apprenticeship as though it was served at the branch of the trade to which she is apprenticed.
(e.) The employer shall not dismiss the apprentice for want of work, but must in such case provide her with another employer within reasonable distance who will continue the first employer’s obligations as to teaching and wages.
(f.) When the full time of apprenticeship is served the employer shall give the apprentice a certificate for the time served.
(g.) Should an employer dismiss an apprentice for good cause he shall nevertheless give her a certificate for the time served.
(h.) It shall be obligatory upon the part of the apprentice to remain with the employer till the full time is served, unless dismissed for misconduct, or discharged by removal from the locality, or other sufficient cause.
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Recommendations for Labour Conditions by Conciliation Council
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👷 Labour & EmploymentLabour Conditions, Wages, Union Membership, Employment Regulations, Arbitration, Strikes
- T. Harle Giles, Conciliation Commissioner
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