BREACHES OF AWARDS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 61, 5 December 1917, Page 5

BREACHES OF AWARDS

THE CASUAL COOK

1 TWENTY-FIVE SHILLINGS A DAY'S PAY Several cases of breach of award were heard by Mr. Riddell, S.M., yesterday. Mary M'Guire, licensee of the White Swan Hotel, Cuba Streot, was proceeded against by an Inspector of Awards for failure to.pay the award rate to a casual cook.

Counsel for Mrs. M'Guiro said that sho had been in the habit of engaging a casual cook and paying her 7s. for the day. The award said that casual employment must bo paid for at the rate of £1 ss. per day. Counsel thought that the Department wouid admit that the award was framed to apply to big hotels, not to small hotels. The defendant admitted a technical broach, and said that as she could not afford to pay 255. per day for casual help she would in future do the occasional cooking herself. The Inspector said that the facts were as stated. The award certainly did not take into consideration tho small hotels.

Air. Riddell said that in the circumstances he would enter a conviction without penalty. Annie Casey; the cook in the cate, w,as charged with having accepted less than the award rate. She told the Court that she had not known of tho provisions of the award. This defendant also was convicted but not penalised.

F; Hulse was fined 10s. for failure to pay overtime rates to A. Olson, T. Sparks, B. Nelson, and W. Shields. The men were fined ss. each for accepting less than proper pay. It was explained by counsel that the breaches were unintentional on all hands. W. H. B. Costelloe was fined £1 for loaving his : employ without giving one week's notice.

The Queen's Marble Bar was fined 10s. for engaging a worker without first applying to the union to supply such worker.