LEATHER GLOVE CUTTER SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 9

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.07

LEATHER GLOVE CUTTER SCHEME

- SCHEME NO. 9

28th August, 1953

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 480 of 1953, as amended by Act XLIV of 1965,

and Legal Notices 32 of 1967, 119 of 1969, 47 and 77 of 1970, 124 of 1976,

61 and 86 of 1977, 51 of 1978, 80 of 1979 and 424 of 2007.

The title of this Scheme is the Leather Glove Cutter

Scheme - Scheme No. 9.

In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires, the

words and expressions used shall have the same meanings as those

assigned to them by the Employment and Training Services Act.

This scheme shall apply to the calling of leather glove

cutter.

No person may be employed as an apprentice under this

scheme unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director that

such person has either completed the fourth year of a Secondary

School or the full Trade School Course, and has completed a period

of six months as a learner in the calling of leather glove cutter.

Employers engaging apprentices under this scheme shall

undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn the

following processes

(1) An appreciation of the various kinds of leather used in

the manufacture of leather gloves, and in particular

(a) Difference of Texture according to

(i)

Type and origin of raw skins used;

(ii) Preliminary processing and tannage

employed;

(iii) Subsequent dyeing and finishing processes

employed.

(b) Suitability of leathers for various types of

gloves

Men’s wear; women’s wear; short day wear; long

evening wear; seasonal differences such as

lined and unlined; washable gloves; suede or

grain gloves; brushed "tinted" or plugged dyed

gloves; "two piece" gloves.

(2) The grading and selection of various leathers

employed for the types of gloves being produced.

(3) The individual planning of each skin for maximum

production compatible with the quality desired prior to

cutting.

(4) The hand doleing of leather to ensure increased

feetage and weight correction as an aid to maximum

material utilization and imporved quality of the

finisked glove.

(5) Tools used for the cutting and punching of gloves and

their maintenance.

(6) Explanation of principles underlying the cutter’s craft

(a) the foundation of sizing;

(b) the control of natural "stretch" or "run" of the

leather;

(c) correct procedure for quality control, including

the placing of faults, also colour and weight

matching;

(d) methodological working for speed and

achievement.

(7) Explanation of the effect of indifferent cutting upon

(a) subsequent processes of manufacture;

(b) the finished product.

(8) The method of damping skins in order to condition

them for the cutting process and proper working of the

leather.

(9) Safety precautions in the workshop.

(10) The actual cutting of the component parts of gloves in

the following sequence

(a) Handling and pulling of leather; cutting and

"trying out " of fourchettes; gussets; welts;

(b) Cutting and "trying out" thumbs;

(c) "Trying out" tranks;

(d) Pulling out cut off lengths ready for "parting";

(e) Measuring and placing tranks; "parting", "trying

out" and "trimming";

(f) Damping; "pulling up skins"; assessing

production; cutting up completely;

(g) Improving and gaining additional experience of

as may types of leather and gloves as possible.

The period of apprenticeship shall be of four years

Provided that six months shall be deducted from the said

periodof four years, in respect of any period of learnership of six

months or more in the above calling, undergone by the prospective

apprentice with the permission of the Director.

(1) The Director may specify, by notice given in writing to

the employer, such classes of instruction which apprentices

employed under this scheme should attend. Such classes shall not

take up more than ten hours in any one week.

(2) Any employer so notified shall afford to any apprentice

employed under this scheme facilities for attending such classes

throughout the period of apprenticeship.

(3) Should any apprentice fail to attend any classes of

instruction on any day without just cause, the employer shall be

entitled to make a deduction from the wages of the apprentice

equivalent to one twelfth of the weekly rate in respect of each half

day or part thereof of default

Provided that where the apprentice is conditioned to a five

day week, the deduction shall be at the rate of one tenth of the

weekly rate in respect of each half day or part thereof of default.

The wages payable to the apprentices in the calling to

which this scheme applies shall be as follows

Year

Wages per week

First

€24.57

Second

€30.79

Third

€37.04

Fourth

€43.26.

(1) The hours of work of apprentices employed under this

scheme shall not exceed nine hours in any one day

Provided that employers may employ apprentices on

overtime work with the approval of the Director, who may impose

such conditions as he may deem fit, at the following rates of

remuneration

(a) for all time worked in excess of nine hours daily: time

and a half;

(b) for all time worked in excess of forty-five hours in any

week, exclusive of any time paid at overtime rates

time and a half;

(c) for all time worked on Sundays and on customary

holidays: double time.

(2) Apprentices under 16 years of age may not be employed

between 11 p.m. of any one day and 6 a.m. of the next following

day.

Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every

calendar week.

Apprentices shall be entitled, in every calendar year, to -

(a) all customary holidays with full pay, and

(b) after three months in employment, vacation leave of

such number of working days with full pay as is

equivalent to the number of working days as that

particular apprentice should normally attend to work

during a period of four weeks

Provided that -

(a) all apprentices who have been in employment for less

than one year shall be entitled to such part of the said

vacation leave as is in proportion to the number of

months in employment, and

(b) vacation leave may not normally be availed of on any

day when the apprentice is required to attend school

for theoretical instruction.

(1) After completing the first six months of

apprenticeship, apprentices shall be entitled to twenty days sick

leave on full pay in every calendar year less any sickness benefit to

which they may be entitled under the Social Security Act

Provided that a medical certificate certifying incapacity for

work covering the period of absence is produced to the employer,

who may require his medical practitioner to examine the

apprentice.

(2) Apprentices shall not be entitled to the payment of any

wages for the first three days of every period of sick leave

Provided that the number of unpaid days of sick leave shall

not be deducted from the entitlement of paid sick leave.

Apprentices shall be allowed two days paid leave on the

death of any of the following: the wife, husband, mother, father (or

the person who at the time was in fact acting as the mother or

father), son, daughter, brother and sister of the apprentice.

In this scheme, "customary holidays" means the days

(other than Sundays) declared for the time being to be public

holidays by or under the National Day and other Public Holidays

Act.

An apprentice shall be entitled to one year injury leave on

full pay, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which an

apprentice may be entitled in terms of the Social Security Act, if he

is injured during the actual discharge of his duty and such injury is

not due to contributory negligence on his part or to contravention

by him of safety rules laid down by the management.