MANUFACTURE OF JEWELLERY AND GOLD AND SILVER WARE SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 10

SILVER WARE SCHEME- SCHEME NO. 10

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.08

MANUFACTURE OF JEWELLERY AND GOLD AND

SILVER WARE SCHEME

- SCHEME NO. 10

22nd September, 1953

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 524 of 1953, as amended by Government

Notice 216 of 1957, 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 Manufacture of Jewellery

and Gold and Silverware Scheme - Scheme No. 10.

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 jeweller, jewel

setter, goldsmith, silversmith and filigree worker.

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.

Employers engaging apprentices under this scheme shall

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

following processes by hand

(1) Jeweller

(a) Polishing;

(b) Use of files, saw frame, blow pipes, drills and

other tools;

(c) The use of rules, dividers and scribers, and

tracing designs on metals;

(d) Rol1ing and wire drawing;

(e) Use and treatment of alloys and solder;

(f) Forming simple and fancy shapes in metal;

(g) Making of brooch and earring fittings, joints,

catches, shanks, rail claws and spring parts;

soldering; doming and shaping; making of

simple and fancy galleries;

(h) Adjusting metal to suit precious stones;

(i) Forming, moulding and casting of rings; making

of simple stone and cluster rings, brooches,

earrings, and bracelets (except chenier work);

(j) Safety precautions in the workshop.

(2) Jewel Setter

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(a) Use of drills, scrapers and other tools;

(b) Adjusting metals to suit gems;

(c) Setting of gems on mount using claw, flush

millegrain or cup type of setting;

(d) Safety precautions in the workshop.

(3) Goldsmith

(a) Polishing;

(b) The use of files, sawframe, blow-pipes, drills

and other tools;

(c) The use of rules, dividers and scribers, and

tracing designs on metals;

(d) Rolling and wire drawing;

(e) Making cheniers;

(f) Forming simple and fancy shapes in metal;

(g) Use and treatment of alloys and solder;

(h) Making of brooch and earring fittings, joints,

catches, shanks, rail claws spring parts and clip

frames; soldering, doming shaping; making of

simple and fancy galleries;

(i) Forming, moulding and casting of gold objects,

making of rings, brooches, earrings and

bracelets;

(j) Finishing and colour processing;

(k) Safety precautions in the workshop;

(l) At the option of the employer the apprentice

may also be instructed in silver work.

(4) Silversmith

(a) Polishing;

(b) Use of files, sawframe, blow-pipes, drills,

hammers, burnishers and other tools;

(c) Use of rules, dividers and scribers, tracing

designs on metals,

(d) Use and treatment of alloys and solder;

(e) Cutting out designs with piercing saw; shaping,

raising, embossing and chasing;

(f) Making of articles in silver by beating or cutting

out from sheet metal; assembling and soldering

together cast, pressed, stamped or other parts;

(g) Safety precautions in the workshop.

(5) Filigree Worker

(a) Use of files, blow-pipes and other tools;

(b) Use of rules, dividers and gauges;

(c) Rolling, wire drawing and twisting. Forming

simple and ornamental designs by metal

according to different patterns;

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(d) Making of brooches, earrings, bracelets and

other objects;

(e) Finishing; colour processing (if gold is used);

(f) Gilding (if such process is used by the

employer);

(g) Safety precautions in the workshop.

The period of apprenticeship in any of the callings under

this scheme shall be of six years

Provided that six months shall be deducted from the said

period of six years, to a total deduction of not more than two years,

in respect of each year of learnership in the calling, undergone by

the prospective apprentice with the permission of the Director

Provided that in respect of contracts of apprenticeship

entered into after the 1st day of January, 1970, the period of

apprenticeship shall be of five years in the callings of Jeweller and

Jewel Setter and of four years in the callings of Goldsmith,

Silversmith and Filigree Worker.

The wages payable to apprentices in the callings to which

this scheme applies shall be as follows

(a) when the apprenticeship lasts five years

Year

Wages per week

First

€24.57

Second

€29.23

Third

€33.92

Fourth

€38.60

Fifth

€43.26;

(b) when the apprenticeship lasts four years

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 follovaing 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

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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 sickess 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 fo the time being to be public holidays by

or under the National Day and other Public Holidays Act.

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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.