HOTEL MAID’S DUTIES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 8

HOTEL MAID’S DUTIES

MAGISTRATE’S DECISION REVERSED BY TZLEGBAFn.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. Greymouth, November 12. An appeal from the decision of Mr. AV. Meldrum, S.M., in the case in which the Department of Labour proceeded against • Mrs.' ‘A. Mclntyre, licensee of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Greymouth, was heard to-day in the Arbitration Court:. The Magistrate's decision was to the. effect- that a bar was part of the’ Hotel, and a housemaid. was required to scrub' but the bar, . and was not entitled to extra wages for doing so. • Mr. Justice Frazer to-day said that a housemaid should not be required to scrub the bar, which might be likened to a shop attached to a house. The Court was satisfied that a housemaid’s duties did not extend to a bar; A “general,” however, received -10 s. weekly-’more than a housemaid, and the scrubbing of the "bar could be part of her duties. If d housemaid was employed to do such work she -must be paid a general’s wages. The work in most hotels was done by a male porter. ■ The Court upheld the appeal, and referred the question of costs to • the Magistrate, with the object of making the case a test.