N.Z. HOTEL WORKERS’ AWARD
CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS IN WELLINGTON (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON. June 2. Wages and conditions of work for hotel workers throughout the Dominion were considered before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr S. Ritchie) by representatives of the New Zealand Federated Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Industrial Association of Workers’ and the employers. The employees claimed a 40-hour week two full days’ holiday a week, and seven days’ holiday on full pay after six months’ service. They also claimed substantial increases in wages. The employers asked for a 44-hour week, and also presented an amended wages scale. .. , ~ Both parties agreed that overtime should be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours, and double time thereafter, for work done on special days, such as Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and Good Friday, time and a half rates are to be paid.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22109, 3 June 1937, Page 15
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