TEA ROOM WORKERS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1930, Page 7

TEA ROOM WORKERS

HOURS AND TIME SHEETS,

WELLINGTON,. May 14

Taking effect from Jtine £nd, 1930 and eontining in ioi'ce until dune 2, 1931, the Dominion Tea Rooms and Restaurant Employees’ Award' has been filed in the Arbitration Court. The award will operate throughout the northern Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Wesr-hind, Caliberbury, and Otago and Southland Industrial districts.

Forty-eight liouri-’ is to constitute a' week’s work, and not more than eleven hours shall he worked on any day without payment of overtime. Except in special circumstances, the workers shall not be brought back to work after their day’s work is finish'd until after an interval of fit least eleven hours, and the workers shall be raid at the rate of time and n-half !”oi* the time by which such interval is curtailed.

N'> female is to he employed after the hour of 10.30 p.rn. in contravention of the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22. One full day’s holiday of twentyfour consecutive hours is to be allowed to every worker covered by the award.

Employees who work on Christmas Day or Good Friday are to be paid double rotes for such work. Em nloyors who work .on Boxing Day. New Year's Day, Faster Monday, King’s ro-.+Vlnv, or Labour Day , are to be paid h'me and a-ha'lf rates. One week’s ’’oliday on full pay on the completion of twelve months’ continuous service is to he allowed all employees. Mr Justice Frazer, in a’, memorandum, said that “A number of clauses were in dispute, most of which have been settled on the basis pf the Private Hotels’ Award. It has been decided to postpone the coming into operation of Clause 15 fre time sheets) until the beginning of the. first payweek in August. Ib is suggested that the employers and the Ujtiqpywill find it, advantageous •to agree iivWtbe meantime oil a uniform !/form 'tbi/be used, and the nostponefnent of the oneraton of the clause lias been decided upon for this reason’.’ A,:.