RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 173, 17 April 1920, Page 9

RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS

. ~ CONDITIONS OF WORK NEW AWARD FILED The award of the Court nf Arbitration in the Wellington district hotel, club, and restaurant workers' disputo has been . filed. ' The principal questions referred to tho Court were as to holidays, wages for dining-room workers, special occasions, overtime, and preference. Several concessions have been gained by the union, particularly the granting of an eight-hour day for female workers, payment for special holidays, and the granting of a week's holiday on full pay at the completion of 12 .months' service. "Full pay" is stated to mean cash wages plus the amount allowed for board and lodging, s • The award provides that the ordinary hours of work shall not exceed (10 a week for males (10 hours each day), and iS for .females (eight hours a day). The daily hours prescribed must be worked within a margin of 11 hem's each day, and, exexceut in special circumstances, worWs shall nil be bmnirht back to work after their day's work is finished until after nn interval of at least Ml hours. Workers shall be paid at the rate of time and a half for the time by which this interval is curtailed. One full day's holiday is to be granted, in every week. Employees who work on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and tho Sovereign's Birthday shall bo paid double rates, and work done on Boxing Day, Blaster Monday, and Labour Day shall be paid for at.the' rato of time and' o>half.

The increases granted in the weekly rates of pay for kitchen "hands" vary from ss. to 10s., the wages schedule

.;S ij11i..:.. ■■->, ,l(. J i'C ,1.1! «r molt) hands arc employed: Glicf, male ,ti 155., female .£3 las.; second, male £A 55., female .£2 17s. 6t1.: third,-male ,£2 2s. 6<l„ female ill 17s. Gd.; all other workers, malar .41 155.. females „E1 10s. Where (o\iv hands are employed: Chef, male ,£4 55., fenvile «£>T 155.; second, male .£2 155., female .£2 7s. Cd.; third, male ,£2, female £1 12s. iid.; all other workers, males i'l 155., females it 10s. Where ■ three ■hands are employed: Chef, male .£3 12s. 'fid., female ,£3 7s. Cd.; second, male -fc2 "s., female .£2; all other workers, males £1 155.; females £1 10s. Where two hands •ire employed: Chef, male £i 155., female £2 10s. i second, malo £1 17s. 6d„ femnle •Gl 12s. Gd. Where one hand is employed;' Hale £.1 2s. Od., femnle £1 17s. Gd. Kitchen hands attending to boilers shall receive ss. a week extra. The following'are the weekly rates for diningroom ' workers, the'wages under the former award being given in parentheses for purposes of comparison':—Waiters .£2 10s. i'.£l 17s. 6d); waitresses; £1 ss. (.ill*.); ,£1 ss. ;'<£l 45.); housemaids, dCI >« (,£1 is.); relieving maids, .£1 ss. (.-£] is.): pantrymen, £1 12s. (3d. (M 12=. Bd.); pantrvmaids, £1 lis. (£] 45.); general hands, =£1 15s. (.£1 12s. 6d.); laundresses, £1 7s. Gd. (.£1 55.); linen maids. ,C'l : 55.: bar attendants, males £2 10s., females .£1 ss. In addition to. these ininiimim rates, provision is made for the payment of o. bonus of 55..., i week until the* Court shall crder otherwise. The award also contains olight increases for casual labour tint work <jon<- 04 special, occasions, the amounts varying from Is. to ss. In the clause relating to preference, two (subclauses been added. The first provides that the local secretary or Organising secretary shall.be permitted to intorview employee* at their place .uf employment on any one day in each week at a suitable, time to be arranged between Hie employer and the tecretary uf the union. The second sub-clause lays down that employers shall, if ,rcques!.ed by (lie organising secretary of the union, .irlpply him with a list of the' names of .the mem'bers of the staff. The award comes into, force on April 2G, 1920, and uhall continue to operate until March 29, 1922.