LAUNDRY ACCOMMODATION FOR WAITRESSES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 5

LAUNDRY ACCOMMODATION FOR WAITRESSES

KEROSENE TINS USED INSTEAD. In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday’, before Air. W. G. Riddell, S.M., Air. W. Mountjov (inspector M awards) for the Labour Department, proceeded against P. E. luow, proprietor of the Tioeadero Hotel, on a charge of not complying, during a period from March 31 to July 28. 1926, with certain provisions of the private hotel employees’ award, which state that, ‘Where the employer does not launder the aprons, caps, and facings worn bv the employees, he or she shal provide laundry acommodation for same to be done on the premises, or in lieu thereof, shal pav 3s. per week in addition to the wages prescribed, and “laundry acommodation means use of tubs, copper, laundry-iron, and dryiu acommodation.” A former waitress at the Trocadero, E. Mills in evidence, stated that the aprons they used were small and white. They boiled them in kerosene tins, which tbev put on the stove. That was the stove on which the dinner was cooked. There was a copper at’ the hotel where she now worked, but she preferred to wash her aprons in a tin. She never sent them to a laundry. “You never get them back the same, ’ she added. Mr. Mountjov urged that a kerosene tin did not meet the requirements ot the award, but the Magistrate said the breach did not appear to be of great importance, nnd a minimum penalty’ would meet the case. He imposed a penalty of 10s., and witness’s expenses of ss.