HOTEL DISPUTE
Award Discussed 5n Conciliation .'
WELLINGTON, Last Night. A difference of 2s 6d a week between the wage claims of the workers and tho offers of the employer's prevented almost complets agreement in the licensed hotel employees' dispute before the Conciliation Council to-day. A 40-hour week was agrecd upon, to be spread over five and a-half days, work on the half-holiday not to be more than four hours. Wherever practicablo the employers undertook to work a fiveday week. The employers offered a 5 per cent. increaso in wages for the general staff, a 5 per cent. incrcase for porters, whose wages will now be £2 10s a iveek and a 10 per cent. increase was offered malc kitchen workers- to • make their wag«fe £2 12s Cd. The workers agreed to the otller proposals, but considered the kitehemncu's wages should be £2 15s. The hearing will continue to-morrow.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 10
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