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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 343.07
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 and 80 of 1979.
Citation. 
Scheme - Scheme No. 9.
Interpretation.
Cap. 343.
2. 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.
Applicability.
cutter.
Employment as 
apprentice.
Amended by:
XLIV. 1965.4.
Substituted by:
L.N. 61 of 1977;
L.N. 51 of 1978.
4. 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.
Processes to be 
learnt.
5. 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
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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.
Period of 
apprenticeship.
Amended by:
XLIV. 1965.4.
6. 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.
Classes of 
instruction.
Added by:
L.N. 86 of 1977.
7. (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
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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.
Wages.
Substituted by:
L.N. 32 of 1967;
L.N. 119 of 1969;
L.N. 124 of 1976;
L.N. 61 of 1977;
L.N. 80 of 1979.
8. The wages payable to the apprentices in the calling to
which this scheme applies shall be as follows:
Hours of work.
Substituted by:
L.N. 119 of 1969;
L.N. 47 of 1970.
9. (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.
Periods of rest.
Substituted by:
L.N. 119 of 1969;
L.N. 80 of 1979.
10. Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every
calendar week.
Vacation leave.
Substituted by:
L.N. 119 of 1969;
L.N. 77 of 1970;
L.N. 86 of 1977.
11. 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
Year Wages per week
First Lm 10.55,0
Second Lm 13.22,0
Third Lm 15.90,0
Fourth Lm 18.57,0.
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day when the apprentice is required to attend school
for theoretical instruction.
Sick leave.
Substituted by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
Cap. 318.
12. (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.
Bereavement 
leave.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
13. 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.
Customary 
holidays.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
Amended by:
L.N. 124 of 1976.
Substituted by:
L.N. 61 of 1977.
Cap. 252.
14. 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.
Injury leave.
Added by:
L.N. 80 of 1979.
Cap. 318.
15. 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.
