‘Useful pattern’ in new award
PA Wellington The principle of the 40hour week had not been affected by the settlement negotiated for tearoom and restaurant workers, said the director of advocacy for the Employers’ Federation, Mr Max Bradford, yesterday.
He said the award now provided a useful pattern of worked hours where both an employee and employer could agree. The new award for these workers allows for four 10hour rather than five eighthour days to be worked without penal rates or overtime being incurred. “Frankly this seems to provide the potential for a
more flexible pattern of leisure and work for the benefit of both business and employee. We fully support the settlement," he said.
"The proposal needs to be seen in quite a different light from the four-for-five day proposition in the freezing industry which has attracted a good deal of attention. “In that case, the proposal by the union was for only 32 productive hours to be worked, but for the equivalent of five days pay,” Mr Bradford said. “In the case of the new tearoom and restaurant award agreement there will still be 40 hours production for 40 hours pay," Mr Bradford said.
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