HOTEL WORKERS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 5

HOTEL WORKERS

NEW AWARD SOUGHT.

WELLINGTON, Augpst 8

Increased wages and improved working conditions, including a claim for a 44 hour week as worked by employees in Australia in hotels, ' were claimed for workers in licensed hotels in the Dominion by the New Zealand Federated Hotel and , Restaurant Employees’ Association of Workers in the Arbitration ■ Court' to-day. Mr A. Kennedy, whose address took practically the whole of the day, appeared for the workers, and Mi' R. L. Hammond represented the employers. • For the employees it was claimed that no worker coming within the scope of the award should have to work more than 44 horns in any one weiek, nor more than eight hours on any one day -without payment of overtime, and that the hours be worked within five and a half days only in each week: ...“AVe are asking,” saidMr Kennedy, ‘‘that bar workers in hotels be put on a 44 hour week, the same as the great majority of workers in other industries.” A day and a half off per week, was also claimed. It was also contended that New Year’fe Day and Anniversary Day should bo set down as two additional special holidays, and that double time should be paid for work on these holidays as was paid in other iodustries. Two weeks’ annual holiday instead of one week as at present was also asked for. Increased wages were also claimed. 1 ' • .j The case will he continued to-irior- j row. V !