EMPLOYEES IN RESTAURANTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22491, 27 August 1938, Page 11

EMPLOYEES IN RESTAURANTS

CONDITIONS DEFINED

AGREEMENT ON HOURS AND WAGES

(PBE33 ASSOCIATIOV TEI/EGHAM.) WELLINGTON, August 26. After deliberations extending over three days, agreement was reached in Conciliation Council to-day on the application of the New Zealand Federated Hotel, Restaurant, and Related Trades Employees' Association of Workers for a new Dominion x award, covering tearoom and restaurant employees. It was agreed that the hours of work should be 44 a week, to be 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 extra, in addition to their ordinary weekly wage, on the coming into force of the award. All employers are to be allowed one week and two dEiv«s' holiday on full pay on the completion of 12 months' continuous service, the employers to give each employee seven days' previous notice of their intention to give the holiday. The agreement provides that not more than 120 hours' overtime shall be worked in any one year. Rates of Pay The following minimum weekly rates of pay were agreed to, those for females being given in parenthesis: Kitchen, where six or more hands are employed: Chief cook £5 10s (£4 16s 6d), second cook £4 (£3 9s), third cook £2 15s (£2 6s 6d), all other workers £2 12s 6d (£2 Is 6d). Where five hands are employed: Chief cook £5 7s (£4 13s 6d), second cook £3 17s (£3 6s), third cook £2 14s 6d (£2 6s), all other workers £2 12s 6d (£2 Is 6d). Where four hands are employed: Chief cook £4 4s 6d (£3 16s), second cook £2 17s (£2 8s 6d). all other workers £2 12s 6d (£2 Is 6d). • Where two hands are . employed: Chief cook £3 7s (£2 18s 6d), second hand £2 14s 6d (£2 2s 6d). Where one hand is employed, £2 14s 6d (£2 0s 6d). x ~_ . ' ' A kitchen hand attending to a boiler will receive 5s awejk extra. The following weekly rates of pay were agreed to for the dining : room and other staff:—Waiter £3 4s 6d, head waitress (if three or more waitresses are employed) £2 Is. other waitresses £1 17s 6d. housemaid waitress £1 1.7 s 6d, housemaid £1 17s 6d, pantrymaid £1 17s 6d, laundress £1 17s 6d, linen maid £1 17s 6d, relieving maid £1 17s 6d, pantryman £2 12s 6d, day porter £2 12s 6d, night porter £2 14s 6d, oyster opener £S 3s. male general hand £2 12s 6d, female general hand £2 6s. Bar attendants, counter hands and/or dispensers in marble bars, milk bars, and such establishments are to receive. £3 4s 6d for male and £1 17s 6d for female workers. The following daily rates of pay were fixed for casual labour:—Male chef £1 10s, female chef £1 7s 6d, second male cook £1 2s " 6d," second female cook £l, other workers, males 17s 6d, female's 15s, waiters £l. waitress housemaid, . housemaidwaitress 15s, pantryman -17 s 6d, day pantrymaids 12s 6d, porters and general hands 17s 6d, laundresses 12s 6d. A worker will be deemedto ployed as a casual worker if ws or s her engagement is for less than seven days. Daily rates were fixed for special occasions, such as races, banquets, balls* outings. Waiters and male bar attendants may be employed between 8

a.m. and 11.30 p.m.. or between 9 p.m and midnight, at a wage of £2 a week. Section Referred to Court

It was decided that hours of work and rates of pay for emergency female workers employed in theatre sweet shops, in which milk drinks, ice cream, and other refreshments are sold, should be argued before the Court of Arbitration at Christchurch. The award is to operate throughout the northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough,- Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland industrial districts, and will include Stewart Island. It will apply to workers employed in tearooms and restaurants, and all such establishments opened to the public for the sale and consumption of food and drink on the premises, and will include workers employed in clubs not covered by the Chartered Clubs' Award. A unanimous resolution was passed requesting the Court of Arbitration to make the agreement into an award, the rate of wages to take effect on September 5 next _,