HOTEL EMPLOYEES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16268, 19 July 1918, Page 5

HOTEL EMPLOYEES.

i AN ATVABD PILED. An award has boon filed as the result of an > industrial dispute between the Canterbury > | Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union and ' J tho employers. Soma of its provisoes were | ' agreed to at the sitting of tho Conciliation ■ Council, and tho remainder were settled by the Court on tho lines of the awards recently made in tho industry in Auckland and Dunedin. In a memorandum tho Judge says:—"As in these places, so hero,. the Court has had>' some difficulty in' deciding as to the class of . private hotels which should be brought under the award. Tho Court has been com- ' pelled to draw an arbitrary, and perhaps, illogical Jino between establishments which 1 should, and those which. should not, be covered by tho award, but the only alterna* i tiv© would have been to include oil establishments, and this the Court - felt would operate' unfairly end oppressively in tho cape of small establishments in which the tariff was low." Tho minimum weekly rates of wages payable by private hotel employers are;— Whore five or more hands ar© • employed, chef £i 10s, second £2 15s, third £1 IBs, all other workers £1 12s 6d; where three hands are employed, chef £3 10s, second £2 2s 6d, all other workers £1 12s 6d; where two hands ; are employed, chef £2 15s, second £1 15s; where- one hand is employed (male) £2; kitchen hand, attending to boilers, 6s per i week , extra. In establishments where females are employed in the kitchon or scullery, the minimum scalo of pay for such workers shall bo in the proportion of not less than threefourths of the soale prescribed for females in similar capacities, provided that no such female shall be paid less than £1 15s per ; week: ' In tho dining-room where two or more waiters are employed—Head waiter £2 12s 6d, others £1 17s 6d j waitress, housemaid- ' waitress, housemaids, and girls, £1 4s; pantrymen £l l2s 6d, pantryinaids £!• 4s, night porters £1 ]ss, day porters £1 12s 6d, general'hands—males' £1 12s 6d,"females ,£l 10s. laundresses £1 ss. ! It is provided that the hours of work for. all workers covered by this part of the award shall be the sitme as those nri'scriJvd bv the Shops and Offices Act, 1908. Except iu .special, circumstances no worker shall be brought back to work after the day's work is finished until after an interval cf at least ten hours, and workers shall paid at the rate of time and a half for tho time by which such v interval is curtailed. In lieu of the half-holiday or whole holiday nrovided for by the Act, one' full' day's holiday .of tweity-four hours on any, day in each week shall be allowed. Part 2 of the award, covering tea rooms, luncheon rooms, refreshment rooms, and oyster saloons, contains similar provisions as regards- wages for males and females, except that 'the wage fixed for waiters in tho din- , ing-room does not exceed £2, although wai- j tresses and others lower in. the scale are to receive the same amount as provided for their class in Part 1 of the award. ■ Provisions •as to hours of work are also simQiar. The holidays clause differs'in that it provides that waiters who are engaged in establishments which are now closed for business on Sun- • days, and who receive their full day's holiday on Sunday under the Act, shall bo entitled, in addition to such full day's holiday, to a half-holiday from the hours of 2 p.m. one of tho working days of the week. •. i Part 111. contains general provisions regarding casnal workers, and special occasions. | » - j There is th» ÜBnal preference clause. The operation of the award is'limited'to-the area . lving within a radius of ten miles from the Chief Post Office. Christchnrrh. Private hotelke»"ers shall be bound only in respect of stvecified establishments. The award is to co<—e jn>o force oti Ansrust sth, IMB, and i j shall continue until August sth, 1920. I