HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 891, 10 August 1910, Page 4

HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.

SUMMARY OF NEW BILL.. tinder tho Shops and Offices Amendment Bill, which was circulated yesterday, ' "hotel" ■ moans any premises, whether licensed under the Licensing Act, 1908, or not, in which meals'aro' provided or sold to tho general public for.consumption on tho premises, and lodging is provided' for hire for tho accommodation of persons who desiro to lodge therein. . ".Restaurant" is,to bo deemed to mean any premises in which meals arc provided as aforesaid, but in which lodging is not provided for the accommodation of persons other than the occupier and his family and assistants, and includes a tea-room and an oyster saloon.

The definitions of "shop" and "shop assistant" are to bo extended to apply to hotels and restaurants and' to the assistants, i

Thoso sections in tho principal Act limiting tho hours of employ of shop assistants shall not apply to hotels and restaurants.

An assistant shall not be employed in or übout an hotol or restaurant or its business: (a) For .more than CO hours, excluding meal times, in riny pno week, in the case of a male whoso age exceeds 16 years, nor more than 56 hours (excluding meal times) in any one week in any other case; nor (b) for more than 10 hours (excluding meal times) in any ono day; nor (c) for moio than 5 hours continuously without an interval of at least half an hour for

a meal; nor (d) at any timo after 2 ''o'clock in the afternoon of -such' working day in each week as the occupier in the case of each assistant thinks fit.

. Such . working hours may, with tho previous written consent of an inspector, be extended, but not for moro than three hours in any one day, and not moVo than 90 hours in any one year. i Ovcrtimo in such cases shall be at tho rate of half as much again as the ordinary rate of wages, or ! tho sum of 9d. per hour; whichever is tho greater.

Tho. clauses in the principal Act providing that shops shall close on tho statutory closing day, for the appointment of statutory closing day in separate districts and in combined districts, for a poll of electors to .determine the statutory closing day, and for special holidays, shall not apply to hotels or restaurants. -.- ■ . . E\;ery shop assistant who is employed as a night porter or night watchman in niiy hotel or restaurant, in lieu of a weekly half-holiday shall havo in each period of fourteen days a wholo holiday of twenty-four hours, : commencing at his usual hour for commencing., work, bii such' working-day as the. occupier in tho case'of bach such shop assistant ■thinks fit. ' ' . ' " \ In lieu of allowing a half-holiday- or a whole holiday as aforesaid, it shall bo: lawful for the occupier of an hotel or "restaurant to'allow any assistant who so desires leave of absenco on full pay at the ordinary rate for a period of seven days (including Sunday) in every thrco months. Any such arrangement may be. terminated by tho'occupier at anytime, or by tlw assistant, oil giving to the occupier seven days' ncjtiee of his desire to terminate- the same. ; The occupier of a shop in which one, or more shop assistants are employed shall at all times keep a record, in English :(callcd tho wages and overtimo .book) shotting, in tho case of each assistant —(a) Tho name of. tho assistant, together, with his ago if under 20 years of ago; (b) the kind of work on which' ho is employed; (c) tho hours, of his employment during each week; (d) tbe wages paid each week; and (c) such other particulars as arc prescribed by regulations. The wages and over-, time book shall at all times be open to the inspection of an inspector. Ah. inspector may at any time require tho occupier to verify the entries. . ..