HOTEL EMPLOYEES' AWARD.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 213, 7 September 1909, Page 5

HOTEL EMPLOYEES' AWARD.

ALLEGED BREACHES. Hγ. C. C- Kettle, S.M., sat this after- ! noon to hear three alleged breaches of the Arbitration Court award, the Auckland Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Industrial Union of Workers proceeding against John Morrison, licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel, on three counts of having employed girb as general hands in che hotel for more than the stipulated 65 hours a week, without having paid them overtime. Mr. Skelton appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Earl tor the defendant. Evidence was given by May Peacock, who stated that for two and a half months she had been engaged as housemaid at the Metropolitan Hotel, to the effect that she haft taken a memorandum of the hours she'had worked during the week ending August 13, last. They amounted to about 84 hours for the week, and she received no overtime. The magistrate remarked that it was difficult to fix exactly the number of hours for a housemaid in an hotel,, as j the travelling public were always coming and going and had to be attended to. ! In anewer to Mr. Earl, the witness 1 said that she had not reported to Mrs. Morrison that she had worked more than !65 hours a week. She was afraid of ! having ibeen dismissed. About a week I before she left -witness told Mrs. Morri-s-cm that they were all working overtime, and Mrs. Morrison replied that I if they -were not satisfied they knew what jto do. Mx. Kettle: Were you a«ked to work •overtime? —Not straight out. But I bad too much to do to get my work done ; in the proper hours. (Proceeding.)