PRIVATE HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
NEW AWARD SOUGHT. In connection with demands for a new award, to be filed to-day, the local Cooks 1 and Waiters' Unitm has cited as parties about forty or fifty restaurant-keepers and about a dozen private hotel-keepers. In the matter of hours, the ur.ion adheres, so far as female workers are concerned, to tlic standard (52 hours per week) established in the recent amendment to the Shops and Offices Act. In the casd of male employees a reduction to CO hours per week is sought. The hours fixed in the Act for male workers are 62 per week. As regards wages, the demands embody a slight general increase on current rates. Advances ranging from 2s Cd. to ss. per week are demanded for the lower grades of workers. A half-holiday on alternative Sundays,"in addition to the statutory halfholiday, is also applied for. Another important demand advanced by the union is that of full preference of employment . for its members. The dispute will b? heard by the Conciliation Commissioner on January 17 next.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1021, 10 January 1911, Page 3
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