NEW DOMINION AWARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 2

NEW DOMINION AWARD

TEAROOMS AND RESTAURANTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. After deliberations extending over three days, an agreement was reached in. Conciliation Council yesterday on the application of the New Zealand Federated Hotel, Restaurant, and Related Trades Employees’ Association of Workers for a new Dominion award covering tearoom and restaurant employees. It was agreed that the hours of work should be 44 a week, to be 4 worked within five and a half days in each week. One full day’s holiday and a half-holiday are to be allowed in each week. Employees who work on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, and the Sovereign’s Birthday, are to be paid, in addition to their ordinary weekly wage, the following amounts: — Waitresses, housemaidwaitresses, pantry-maids, relievingmaids, linen-maids, laundresses, housemaids, counter hands, dispensers, female workers, and other workers receiving the minimum rates of pay, ss; porters, kitchen hands, cooks, and other workers receiving £2 10s or less weekly, 6s; all other workers, 7s, for each of the holidays workers. On the coming into force of the award, all employers are to allow one week and two days’ holiday on full pay on completion of 12 months’ continuous service.