BREACHES OF AWARD

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 16

BREACHES OF AWARD

PENALTIES IMPOSED

Penalties for breaches of the New Zealand Tearoom and Restaurant Employees' Award were claimed against Velimir Bingoula, a restaurant proprietor, of 13S, Willis street, by Mr. W. J. Mountjoy, Inspector of Awards, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The allegations against the defendant were:—(l) That he failed to have exhibited in a conspicuous place in his restaurant a statement of the holidays and working hours of each o£ his e:n ployees. (2) That he. failed to keep a time and wages book. (3) From Ist June to 19th October he failed to allow a full day's holiday each week to one of his employees. (4) That he tailed to pay a kitchen worker the rate of wages prescrilied in. the award., (j) That" In; failed i.. pay the correct'wages to a wuit'ri:ss.'

Mr. Mount joy said that'the defendant had beeii in business about four year.--, and during the hist six' months he had opened up a'restaurant. He had employed a .worker at v wage of £2 5s a wee!; in the kitchen up to Sth August. The wage had their been reduced to £2. Ota of that £1 10s'was deducted for board for the husband and 10s for board for the employee, the defendant cousiderin;: that he was complying sufficiently wish the award. The award required the pay ment of a weekly wage of £2 3s Gd, and a provision was also made that when the. employer supplied accommodation to guests he must also provide aecommoda lion for workers, so that' the' defendant wrongfully deducted 10s from the work er's wages to cover the cost of board which he was required to provide. Even assuming that, the agreement was to deduct £1 10s from the worker's wages for the husband's board, the worker should have received 13s Cd a week, whereas, in fact, she received no.thing. The wages and time book had not been entered for four, weeks. No time-table had been exhibited, and' considerable difficulty had been experienced in ascertaining '■ the correct hours worked in the establishment.. A waitress had been employed by the defendant for twelve days, and he had failed to pay her in full on the termination of her services.

On' the first charge the Magistrate (Mr. T. B. M'Neil) imposed a penalty of £2; on the second charge, £5; on the fourth, £3; and on the fifth charge, £1. The third charge was withdrawn.