DOMESTIC WORKERS
MISTRESSES AiND MAIDS AGBEE,
New Zealand women at present in London have been interested in a movement to place domestic workers on an improved footing. Conferences have been held between representatives of the mistresses and of tho workers, and recently it was announced that an agreement had been reached. A iS'ew Zealander has forwarded tho following scale of wages and conditions, adopted in Surrey, as a minimum :— .
Girls of 18 as generals,' ,£2O a year; ox-, perienced generals, £'ib; cook-generals, .£26; housemaids, '£'>2; house-parlour-maids, .£23; cooks, .230; girls, 16 to 17, as under-so-rvants, jCU to'.£l7.
~ Terms of leisure: Two consecutive hours daily, a hall-day every week, parttime on Sundays, whole day once a month, and a week's holiday, with full board, for six months' complete service, irrespective of holiday with the family. Mealtimes: An hour for dinner, and half an hour each for breakfast njid tea.
These terms were to bo embodied in an agreement, and the employers were to give a further assurance that the situations were- "comfortable," and that the sleeping accommodation was satisfactory. Tho conditions would not attract many New Zealand domestic workers.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 228, 20 June 1919, Page 3
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188DOMESTIC WORKERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 228, 20 June 1919, Page 3
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