HOTEL EMPLOYEES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 70, 9 August 1912, Page 4

HOTEL EMPLOYEES.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. - By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. At the hotel employees' st deputation was appointed to ask the Minister for Labor to provide an Amendment to the Shops and Offices Act, giving a clearer definition of restaurants, so as to include clubs and private hotels in competition with licensed houses, and boarding-houses that were commercial establishments, and employing three or more workers. Other things asked are a compulsory Sunday holiday for bar assistants, and a half-holiday on one day of the working week from 12 noon; restaurant assistants a half-holiday in businesses open for six days, and a full holiday in .businesses open for seven days a. week. It was suggested that time sheets be provided, and that trade union secretaries should have power to lay an information "under the Act. In connection with the failure of the Arbitration Court to make awards for private hotels if; was recommended that the Government •be asked to amend the Act, making it mandatory that awards be made in such eases. It was resolved "That consideration of the question of joining with the United Labor Federation be held over. and meantime the unions and branch unions affiliated be recommended to join the party." Affiliated unions were instructed to seek for equal pay for i>qual work for male and women woikej's in future awards. ' '