WELLINGTON PASTRY COOKS AWARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3222, 21 June 1909, Page 3

WELLINGTON PASTRY COOKS AWARD.

The Award in connection with the Wellington Wastry Cooks Dispute was filed on June 10th with the Clerk of Awards. The award which embodies the agreement of the parties came into force on the 9th June," and remains in operation for period of two ' years. It provides for a week of 48 hours starting not earlier than 6 a.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and not earlier than 4 a.m. on Mondays and Saturdays. Overtime is to be paid for work done in"ft.\ce(js of ten hours per day, 48 hours per week, or after 1 p.m. on the statutory half-holiday at the rate of time and a quarter for the first three hours and time and a-half afterwards. The holidays to be observed are Ist January, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the Sovereign's Birthday and Labour Day. Work dons on Christmas Day, Good Friday or Sunday must be paid for a double rates, and on other of these holidays at time and a quarter. The minimum wages for pastry cooks are fixed as follows: — Foreman, or first hand, £3 per week; second hand, £2 10s per week; table hand, £2 5s per week Jobbers

must be paid 10s per day of 8 hours or £2 10s per week. An anprenticeship of 4 years is provided for with wages rising by six-monthly increases from 12s 6d per week to 30s per week. No females are allowed to manufacture goods in bake-house or to do any hot plate work, but may be employed in packing and finishing, and in cleaning fruit. A time book must be kept in every bake-house and the hours of work entered daily by the foreman. Provision is made I for a week's notice of termination of engagement on either side; for I half an hour to be allowed for break- | fast, and three quarters of an hour ! for dinner. An employee may, where it is necessary, lodge with his employer at a charge of not more than 15s per week; and an employer may. by arrangement provide two meals a day at 7s 6d per week or three meala at 10s per week. The usual prov.sions as to preference and under-rate t workers are inserted. The award applies to all persons in the Wellington district who carry on exclusively J the business of pastry cooks, and to I those persons and firma vvho while they do not carry on exclusively the business of pastry cooks employ workers solely in that capacity.