INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 11

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

HOTEL AWARD- EXPIRATION. UNION APPLIES TO COURT. Information has been received by Mr. S. E. Wright, secretary of the Auckland Provincial Employers' Association, that the Hotel Workers' Union has filed applications under sections 7 of the 1932 Amendment to the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act for the Arbitration Court to fix the rates of wages for female workers employed in both public and private hotels. Conciliation councils in both cases failed to arrive at an ■agreement as to new terms and conditions of work, and the awards affecting those industries have been gazetted as being cancelled as from to-day. The effect of the union's applications is that until the Court has given all parties to the awards an opportunity of being heard, and has given its decision on the applications now being made by the union, the rates of wages specified for females in the cancelled awards, less the 10 per cent reduction ordered by the Court in May, 1931, must continue to be paid. Any order in this connection made by the Court must be for a period of not less than six months, and not more than 12 months. The gazetted cancellation of the award is effective as regards all the other terms and conditions as from September 22. This is the first application made to the Court to fix wages since the coming into operation of the .amending Act. DAIRY FACTORY WORKERS. The Conciliation Council, which sat yesterday under the chairmanship of Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, to hear the dispute between the employers in the butter and cheese industry and* the Auckland Creameries and Butter Factories Union, was adjourned until October 0, after agreement had been reached on minor points. The proposals of the employers in respect to wages, hours and classification of workers were held over until after a hearing is taken in New Plymouth.