ARBITRATION COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8878, 12 November 1907, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

JUDGMENT IN COOKS AND WAITERS' CASE. BUILDERS' AWARD DEFERRED. By Telegraph— Association. WELLINGTON, November 11. The Arbitration Court, to-day, delivered judgment in the case respecting the validity of the industrial agreement respecting the employment of cooks and waiters. The recommendations of the Conciliation Board became operative as an industrial agreement because, through some mistake, the employers neglected to file within the legal period the application to send the case on to the Arbitration Court. Last week, however, the Supreme Court decided >that a restaurant is a shop and a waiter a shop assistant. 1 A waiter, being a shop assistant, is debarred§by the Shops and Offices Act from working more than 52 hours in a week, whereas the industrial agreement fixes a waiter's working hours at 65 per wefk, the remuneration being arranged, of course, on that basis. The effect of the iudgment delivered by the Arbitration Court is that the industrial agreement is valid both as applied to restaurants and hotels. The parties will now confer, in pursuance of a suggestion of the Court,* ' and, if necessary,.a fresh dispute will ■be proceeded with before the Court next Friday. The dispute between the Building Trades and the Labourers' Union and the Employers' Asaociation in respect of which the Conciliation Board's recommendations were unsatisfactory to the workers, was considered. Evidence was taken, and the Court announced that it would take time to consider the matter. *

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