CONCILIATION COUNCIL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10276, 10 May 1919, Page 4

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

PRIVATE. HOTEL J EMPLOYEES’ ' AWARD. The Conciliation Commissioner (Air A. Newton) will preside at a sitting of the Conciliation Council to bo held at Napier on Tuesday next. Sittings will also be held at Wanganui on Thursday, May loth; at Palmerston North on Fri.lay, May 16th; and at Masterton on Monday, Alay 19th. In each centre the business to be dealt with will be the shop assistants’ dispute. Air W. A. Grenfell, secretary to the Employers’ Association, will represent the employers. while the shop assistants will be re-, presented by local delegates in each district.

The Commissioner reported yesterday that complete agreements had been arrived at in the private hotel employees’ dispute, and the oyster rooms and refreshment rooms employees’ dispute in the Wairarapa, Wanganui, and Hawke’s Bay districts, while at Napier the employers’ representatives objected to some of the points, . The new award, which has been filed, provides for the payment of the following wages for private hotel employees:— Kitchen Hands —In oases where four and more hands are employed: Chef (male or female), £4; second ohef, £- ss; other hands, £1 12s 6d. In oases where three hands &r© employed: Choi, £3 12s 6d; second chef, £2 6s; other bands, £1 12s 6d. In cases wnere two hands are employed: Ohef, £2 15s; second ch.eLy : £l ,16s, > (Where one hand a employed: Ohef, £2. Dining-room Hands—ln cases- where two or more-waiters ore employed: Head waiter, £2 12s 6d; others, £1 17s 0d; head waitress, £1 12s OH; others, £1 7s 6d; housemaid-waitress, £1 7s Od; housemaids, £1 7s 6d; pantryman,. £1 12s 6d; pairtrymaids, £1 7s 6d; night porters, £1 18s; day porters, £1 15s; general hands, £1 16s; laundresses, £X XOs; linenmaids, £1 7s 6d. Where employees do not hoard at the place of their employment, 15s a week allowance in addition to their weekly wage is to be made and 7s 6d per week lodging allowance.