CO-OPERATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 12

CO-OPERATION.

A firm at Oxford, England, which runs its catering business on co-operative lines, is complaining that its girls will get married. "When these girls came to us," the director said, "they looked thin and haggard, but after a little while they soon get buxom and well because we have a staff committee to run the cook and see that the assistants get as much rice pudding as they want. The next thing we know is that the girls are going to get married and they sell out their shares in the business." The director said that the firm was run on co-partnership lines, and all employees always received their share of the profits.. They, tried to dissuade customers in the restaurant from giving tips, and when a customer ignored the notice and left something on the table it was promptly put into the missiOnai-y or hospital box. Another scheme by the firm was to give six of the employees a week's holiday in Paris every year, with all expenses paid. ' They were known as- merit - holidays, and the six were choceH by -ballot-taken among tlie 'staff.