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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(h.) Existing arrangements with or relating to apprentices now serving any employer may continue, provided that an employer wishing such arrangements to continue shall forward the names of his present apprentices to the Inspector of Factories within one month after the filing of this award.

(i.) No deduction shall be made from the wages of an apprentice except for time lost through the worker’s illness or default, or on account of the temporary closing of the factory for cleaning the same or for repairing the machinery, and the apprentice shall make up such lost time before the following year of his apprenticeship shall be deemed to commence, and the total period of his apprenticeship shall be extended for a period equal to such lost time; but an apprentice working overtime shall have such time added to his ordinary time in calculating the respective years of his apprenticeship.

(j.) The proportion of apprentices shall be one apprentice for every three or fraction of three journeymen.

(k.) For the purposes of determining the number of apprentices to journeymen the calculation shall be based on a two-thirds full-time employment of journeymen during the six months immediately prior to taking an apprentice, and an employer working at any branch of the trade shall rank as a journeyman.

PART III.—CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL WORKERS AFFECTED BY THIS AWARD.

Payment of Wages.

1. All wages shall be paid weekly within fifteen minutes of the usual time for ceasing work. Employers shall not keep more than two days’ wages in hand at any pay-day.

Machinery and Subdivision of Labour.

2. The employer shall have the right to introduce whatever machinery his business may in his opinion require, and to divide or subdivide labour in any way he may deem necessary, subject to the payment of wages as herein set forth and to the provisions of clause 3, Part I, and clause 7, Part II, hereof.

Control of Factory.

3. Every employer shall be entitled to the fullest control over the management of his factory, and to make such regulations as he deems necessary for time-keeping and good order.

Deductions.

4. (a.) Any time lost through illness or the default of the worker, or by reason of a breakdown or accident to any of the machinery used by the employer, or shortage of work necessitating temporary suspension of the whole of the factory, shall be deducted from his or her wages, provided that any such time exceeds one continuous hour. Where any worker has presented herself or himself for employment in the morning and no work has been provided for him or her, the employer shall in such case pay such worker one half-day’s wages, unless due notice has been given to the worker the previous day. No worker who presents himself or herself under such circumstances shall receive less than one half-day’s wage.

(b.) When the slackness of work or the exigencies of the trade render it necessary to work short time, the employer shall distribute the work as evenly among all classes of workers as circumstances shall permit, and in such cases workers shall only be paid for the time actually worked, subject to the subsection (a) hereof.

Termination of Employment.

5. One week’s notice of the termination of the service of the worker shall be given by the employer to the worker, or by the worker to the employer. But this shall not prohibit the employer from summarily dismissing any worker for good cause.

Under-rate Workers.

6. (a.) Any worker who for any reason is considered incapable of earning the minimum wage may be paid such lower wage as may from