HOTEL AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 72, 19 December 1918, Page 6

HOTEL AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES

INTERPRETATION OF AN AWARD. \ decision of the Arbitration Court n,t Auckland affecting hotel and restaurant employees practically throughout the Dominion was yesterday notified to the Labour Department at Wellington. The Court of Arbitration at Auckland was asked by the Inspector of Awards for an interpretation of certain clauses in the Auckland Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Award. Clause 1 (a) of the award provides that the hours of work -.hall be regulated by the Shops ami Offices Act, 19118, and its amendments. Clause 16 provides that all workers covered bv the award shall be paid for overtime at the rate of time and a hall, the minimum rate of overtime io be paid to be Is. per hour. Clause 21 (a) lays it down that where board is not provided for a worker under the award, such worker shall be paid 15s. per. week in addition to the wages prescribed in the award; a.nd that where., lodging is not provided, the- worker shall be paid <s. Gd. per week in addition to the wages prescribed; provided, "Iways Hint if an employer is mil ing and oilers to provide suitable lodgings for any such employee, and such enmloyee prefers to lodge else-wl'O'-p. ,in fli I T.'<->nen M him or her for shall be paid. f> The "question asked of the Court was: "In cises where workers arp employed in exc'.ss of the ordinary hours stipulated in the Shops and Office* Act, 1908. is the amount set down in Clause 21 of the award for board and lodgings to W added to the ordinary wages in computing payment for overtiny-? , ' The answer given by thir Court was. "Tn our opinion, thoi overtime rate of time and a half provided for bv Clav"'p. of the award has reference onlv to the rate of wtos fixed by Clause 3 of the award. Tlie. special provisions n»rpr Clause 21 relating to board ai.d lodsi'>its cannot, be cms-icWrd in thp eommitation of ove-rtinip." The answer to th-j-nues-tkm submitted was, therefore, "No. '