CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1918, Page 3

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

HOTEL EMPLOYEES' DISPUTE SETTLED. After a two days' sitting a full settlement was arrived at yesterday morning on all points at issue in connection with the Taranaki hotel employees' dispute. The minimum weekly rates of pay of workers in hotels will be—the present rates being in parentheses —as follows: Kitefiien where foih* hands are employed: Chef £4 ( £3 15s), second £2 7s lid (£2 ss), others £1 12s Cd (£1 6s fid). Where three hands are employed: Chef £3 10s ( £3 2s Gd), second £2 2s Cd, others £1 12s Cd (£1 fls (id). Where two hands are employed: Chef £2 15s ( £2 ss), second £1 15s ( £1 7s Gd). Provision is made for females: Chef £2 10s, second £1 10s. , Where only one hand is employed the minimum will be: Male £2, female £1 17s Od (£1 103). A kitchen lhand attending to boiler receives 53 per week extra. Dining room. —"Where two or more waiters are employed the head waiter will receive £2 12s Od, jthers £1 17s fid (£1 12s Gd). Waitresses, housemaidwaitresses, housemaids, relieving girls, and pantrymaids £1 3s Od (£1). Barmen.—Head £2 10s ( £2), others £2 os (£2). Single-handed position £2 10s (£2), barmaids £2 (£1 10s),, porters and billiard-markers £1 12s (3d £1 10s), general hands £1 12s fid ( £1 0s 8d), females £1 10s. A general hand may be employed in any capacity desired by the employer, but in the event of any such general hand being employed for more than onefourth of his time during any one week in any special capacity, such worker shall receive the wages fixed for such special work if such wages are in excess of the ordinary rates received by the worker in question. Laundresses will rewtve .31 7 s 6d as against £1 ss. Hours of work, holidays, casual labor, special occasions, overtime, under-rate workers, duties and obligations of employers, board and lodging, and other machinery clauses are in accordance with the old award. A new preference clause is inserted to blie following effect: If any employer shall hereafter engage any worker coming within the scope of this award who shall not become a member of the union within 14 days engagement, the employer shall dismiss such worker from his service if requested to do so by the 1 union, provided there is then a member of the union equally qualified to perform the particular work required to be done, and ready and willing to undertake the same. The organising secretary of the union shall be permitted to interview employees at their- places of employment at a convenient place to be set aside by the employer on any one day in each month at a suitable time to be arranged between the employer and organising secretary of the union. Em- , ployers shall, if requested by the organic ising secretary of the union, supply ttiim with a list of the names of the members | of the hotel staff. The award is to apply to all hotelkeepers carrying on business within the r Taranaki industrial district, and is for ' a term of two years. ♦

At the close of the proceedings the assessors present thanked the Commissioner for the able and courteous manner in which he had presided oer the counvcil's deliberations, and assured him that they considered it was due in a great measure to his assistance that they had been able to arrive at a. satisfactory settlement.