COUNTRY HOTELS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 117, 11 February 1919, Page 6

COUNTRY HOTELS

-* . \ ' EMPLOYEES-SEEK NEW AWARD. ' New demands covering country hotels , in the following licensing districts have been filed bv the Wellington District Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Workers , Union:—Waipawa, ' I'ahiatua,' Waimarino, Manawatu. Otaki, Wairarapa, Wa- , ngaiiui, t'almerston North, Feilding, Napier, and llawke's tiny. Sittings of the . Conciliation Council have been arranged for Wanganui (March 1), Palmerston North (March 5), Napier (March •"), and for the other districts (March 11). Con'siderable increases in .rates'of pay are requested, and improved condition's are asked for oil round. It is, suggested that the hours of duly shall be worked within a margin of thirteen hours in any one day, "meal tiuia" being included. ( • - ■ / ■The minimum weekly wages demanded j •ate as follow, the old rates being.given I in. parentheses:— , '■ Kitchen. ■ ! Where five or more hands are'employ-1 cd: Chef, .£5 10s. \M 12s. Cd.)| second, j .X:i 11)5. U2 17s. Gtl.); third, i! 2 ss. (£l\ 12s. Gd.); all other workers, 2s..Gd. j Ul 7s. Gd.). Where four hands are em-; ployed: Chef, M 15s. (J-4);. second,< J:3.! ss. {£> 7s. Gd.); third, =E2 ss. (no provi-1 vision); all other workers, 2s. Gd. j (XI 7s. Gd.) Where three hands are cmployed: Chef, £A (J:3 Ms'.); second, JE3 <-£3 ■ 7s. Gd.); all other workers, i,i 2s. 'lid.'.Ul 7s. 6d.). Where two hands are employed: Chef, £3 ss. (J3 10s.)j second, £2 ss. (XI 10s.) ■ Where one band is employed,• £i Ms. (X 2). . Kitchcnhand attending to boilers ss. per week extra (no alteration). Dining-room.'; ; Where two or more waiters.are employed: Head waiter, Jt3 (.fc2 10s.); others, £'i 10s.; head waitress, £i; others, XI 10s. (all X'l 10s.); housemaid-waitress, i'l 10s. (XI); housemaid-waitress, where no other waitresses are' kept, only the housemaid-waitress, XI 15s. (XI); housef maid; XI 10s. (17s. lid.); , pantryman, X 2 as.; pautrymaids, : X1 10s.; barman and barmaids, X 3 (XI 155., X2/X2 10s.); cellormen, X 3. (A cellarman to be a man ' who is- substantially employed in the ceU lar.) Porters: Night, X 2 10s. (XI 12s. 6(1.): day, X 2 ss. (XI 7s. .fid'.); general i hands, X 2 2s. Gd. '(XI 75..'6 d.); billiard * markers, X 2 10s.; laundresses, XI 15s. (XI ss.);' linen maids, XI 10s. A day's casual labour is not .to exceed ■ ten hours, workers to be deemed to bo • casuals if their engagement is not for ft 1 period of seven days. , . The minimum ' rates asked for casuals arc as follow:— • Kitchen: Chef,. XI ss. per day, for the ■ first throe days; thereafter ordinary • .wages. Second cooks, 15s. per day for 1 the first throe days; thereafter ordinary wages.- Ail other workers, Ms. per day • for tho first throe days, thereafter ordinary wages. Waiters, 12s. (id. per day ' for the first-three days,, thereafter ordinary wages. Waitresses, 10s. per day for - tho first throb days, thereafter ordinary ' wages. When a waiter or waitress are >' employed for a single meal, they shall receive 7s. Gd. Pantrymen, 10.-. a day • for the first three days, thereafter ordin- ? ary wages. Panlrymoids, &s. 6d. a day r for the first three days, thereafter ordm- - ary wages. Barmen and barmaids, XI k a day for the first three days, thereafter '. ordinary wages. I'orters ami general . hands. 10s. a day for the first Hirce days, - thereafter ordinary wages. Laundresses, n Gs. a day. . Tho union desires that workers ro- - cciviug XI 10s. p?r week or less shall be paid, for overtime at the rate of Is. per . hour, and that those in receipt of more - than XI 10s. shall be paid time and a - haif for overtime. ■■.-... i Where board is not. provided it is i asked that workers shall be paid XI per . week in addition to the ordinary rate- ot 1. wages, 10s. extra being paid in cases !i where lodging is not provided.