HOTEL EMPLOYEES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 7

HOTEL EMPLOYEES.

(By Telegraph—Prosa Association.) . Duncdin, January-13. 111 accordance with tho decision of the Loniorencc of Hotel Employees' Unions in Wellington recently, the -Dnnedin Union intends filing a dispnto shortly lor hearing before . tho . Conciliation. Council. A statement of claim has been prepared which, it is hoped, will form basis for. a Dominion award. Tho following, arc tho principal items.in the clairii: -Sixty | hours for male workers and 52 for females, with a weekly halfholiday and a half-holiday from- 2 p.m. every second Sunday. Wages:—Kitchen, where iivo or'mora hands ar« employed, chef £4 10 s . per week •second £2 155., third £1 10s., others £1 <s. 6d.; whero four hands nro cmployed, chef £4, second £2 ss. 6d., others £1 is. 6d.; where three hands" are employed, chcf £3 10s., second £2 2s. 6d., third £1 7s. Gd.; whero two hands aro' employed, chcf £2 10s., second £1 10s.; where one hand is employed, male £2, fcmalo £1 10s., kitchen hand attending to boiler, as. extra. Dining-room, where threo or more waiters aro enjoyed, head waiter £2 10s., Eecond £2, others £1 12s. od.; whero two aro .employed, head £2, second £1 12s. Gd.; whero ono is employed,. £1 • 12s. "6d:; where'two "or tnoro waitresses are -employed,' head -£1 '7s. 6d., others £1 2s. Gd.; where ono : is employed,' £1 ss. Housemaids^' 'employed as such only, £1, assisting in dining-room or bar,' £1' 2s'. 6d. Pantry, where moro than one arc employed, first hand £1 10$., others. £1 55,; wiiero only 'ono is employed, £1 7s. (3d.; females, £l '2s. Gd. Porters, where more than ono is employed, first- hand £1 10s., others £1 7s. 6d.'; where only ono is employed, £1' 7s. 6d. Night porters, whore mpro th.7'll olio is employed, first £1 10s., others.£l 7s. Gd'.; whore only one is .employed, £1 10s. Barmen £2 2s. Gd., -barmaid £1 10s., billiard-markers, £1 los., laundresses £1 7s. 6d., general hands, £l--7s. 6d. Provision is mado for ovortime, casual labour on special occasions,- board and lodgings, and preference. . ...