COOKS AND STEWARDS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 133, 1 March 1929, Page 7

COOKS AND STEWARDS

HOURS AND WAGES AT SEA TERMS OF NEW AWARDS The Arbitration Court yesterday filed a new award in the dispute between the Federated Cooks’ and Stewards’ of New Zealand Industrial Association and the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, the Blackball Coal Mines Proprietary, the Union Steam Ship Company, and the Westport Coal Company. The award sets out the following scheduue of wages per calendar month:— Stewards in charge of cargo steamers, £l9 45.; second steward, £l5 145.; chief saloon steward (head waiter), first or second saloon, £l4 45.; steward in charge of second saloon in vessels in which three classes of passengers are carried, £l5 145.; first grade assistant stewards employed either as bedroom stewards, saloon waiters. printers, or buglers, if acting as either bedroom stewards or saloon waiters, bathroom stewards, mess-room stewards, storekeepers. or linen keepers, £l3 145.; forecabin steward, £l4 145.; laundry steward, £l4 145.; laundress, £lO 55.; second-grade assistant stewards employed either as assistant fore-cabin stewards, boots, maindeck steward, oflicers’ steward, or assistant pantryman, £l3 45.; pantryman, first or second saloon, £l4 145.; second pantryman. where three or more pantrymen are carried, £l3 145.; pantryman, fore-cabin. £l3 145.; assistant stewards, cargo, £l3 45.; nightwatchman, £l5 45.: cadets under seventeen years, £5 7s. 6d.; cadets, seventeen to nineteen years. £7 17s. fid.; cadets, nineteen to twenty-one years, £9 2ss. fid. (a cadet is a probationer who assists In but does not solely perform the work of an assistant steward* and it he substantially performs the work of an assistant steward he is to be paid the wages of the rating); stewardess, £lO 55.: assistant stewardess, £9 55.; fore-cabin stewardess, £lO 55.; (b) for the purpose of computing payments for broken periods a calendar month shall be reckoned as thirty days. ’ In the case of a vessel being wrecked or stranded for more than twenty-four hours in the course of her voyage, and any worker being kept working by the vessel, he shall be paid in addition to his ordinary wages 2s. per hour between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., and 3s. per hour between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. Shore Pay. Where a steward is required by the ship to sleep;and take his meals on shore while on articles, he shall be paid 2s. for each meal and 3s. for a bed. Stewards working by a vessel when off the ship’s articles and before signing articles, shall be paid the following rates for ordinary time worked (overtime pay In parentheses):—Stewards in charge of cargo boats. 2s. sd. (3s. 5d.); second stewards, 2s. 3d. (3s. 2}d.); other stewards, except cadets. 2s. (2s. ll}d.); cadets. Is. 2d. (Is. 9d.). “Ordinary time” means between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 noon, and 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.. Mondays to Fridays, both inclusive, and 8 a.m. and 12 noon on Satur-. days. "Overtime” means work performed outside' the foregoing hours and work performed on Sundays and holidays. Overtime. All time worked in excess of the hours or before or after the times of commencing or finishing work specified, shall be deemed to be overtime, and shall be paid for at the rate of 2s. fid. per hour for ratings whose wages are fixed at £l5 per month or more, and 2s. 3d. per hour for other ratings; cadets, Is. 2d. per hour. The rate of overtime for stewardesses shall be 2s. 3d. per hour, under clause 19 and 23. and Is. fid. per hour in all other cases. The minimum payment for overtime shall be half an hour, after which actual time shall be paid. Hours of Work at Sea. The hours of work at sea shall be nine hours a day. . The hours of laundrymen and laundresses at sea shall be 9 hours per day between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., on Monday to Saturdays inclusive, if workers are called upon to work in excess of these hours overtime shall apply. Sundays and Holidays. When a vessel leaves any of the main ports on a Sunday or holiday, each steward shall be paid an extra day's sea-pay. Should a vessel leave more than one main port on a Sunday or a holiday, one extra day’s sea-pay only shall be allowed. Main ports are: Auckland, Gisborne, Nnpler. Wellington. Plcton, Nelson, Lyttelton. Oamaru. Timaru, Port Chalmers. Dunedin, Bluff, Onehunga, New Plymouth, Suva, Papeete, San Francisco, Vancouver, Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart. Adelaide, and Fremantle. Whenever a vessel arrives In port on a Sunday or holiday, payment for overtime shall not commence until 9 a.m.. or until after the expiration of half an hour after arrival (whichever is the later), and overtime rates shall, thereafter be paid for work actually done. Should any steward be required to work tn port on any Sunday or holiday he shall be paid at the overtime rate, and if the vessel sails from a main port on such Sunday or holiday, the extra day’s sea-pay shall be payable in addition. Discharge. The master mav discharge any member of the stewards’ staff at his home port if he gives him not less than twenty-four hours’ notice, and if the notice be not less than twenty-four hours before the ship leaves sucli port. Any member of the stewards’ staff may end his engagement at his home port if he gives such notice as aforesaid. Passage Concessions. The wives of stewards in charge and children dependent on them for support, will be granted passages at half rates; but they will not be permitted to travel on board the ship in which the steward in charge upon whom they are dependent is employed. Judge’s Memorandum. “The Court has settled the clauses relating to wages, signing off and on articles on the same day, limited period of employment, shore pay, overtime, hours of work at sea and in port, nightwatchman, holidays in port, Sundays and holidays, excursions, . weekly time off, meal hours, uniforms, definitions, preference, application of award, and term of award,” states Mr. Justice Frazer in a memorandum to the award. “In other respects the award follows tlie recommendations of the Conciliation Council, which the parties agreed to accept. This decision is that of a majority of the Court.” “I dissent from the Court’s findings because no meal hour has been provided for stewards at sea," states Mr. A. L. Monteith in a dissenting opinion. “All vessels on the Australian coast and all vessels on Australian articles have such a provision. . . . . Although the Union Steamship Company is not legally bound, 355 of its total staff of 900 stewards have meal hours. I am of opinion that in this age it is surely reasonable to provide in these circumstances sufficient time for workers to partake of their meals.” Galley Staffs. An award covering the galley staffs in the same dispute fixes the rates of wages per calendar month as follows: —Chief cook (intercolonial and foreign-going steamers), £22 45.; chief cook (steamers other than intercolonial and foreigngoing), £2O 145.: second cook, £lO 145.: extra second cook, £l5 145.; third cook, £l3 145.; extra third cook, £l2 145.; steerage cook (Maunganui and Makura only). £l5 45.; ship's cook, £lO 45.; assistant ship’s cook, £l2 145.; baker (intercolonial and foreign-going steamers), £lB 45.; baker (other than intercolonial and foreign going steamers). £l7 45.; second baker (where two or more bakers are carried). £l5 45.; assistant baker, £l4 45.; butcher (intercolonial and foreign-going steamers). £l5 145.; butcher (steamers other than Intercolonial and foreign-going), £l4 145.; second butcher (where two or more butchers are carried), £l4 45.; assistant butcher, £l3 45.; sculleryman, £l2 14s. (b) Cargo steamers: Chief cook, £l7 45.; second cook (where three employed). £l4 45.: assistant cook. £l2 145.” Judge's Memorandum. “The Court has settled the clauses relating to wages, signing off and on articles on tlie same day, limited period of employment, shore pay, overtime, hours of work at sea and in port, holidays in port, Sundays and holidays, excursions, weekly time off, meal hours, uniforms, definitions, preference and term of award.” states Mr. Justice Frazer in a memorandum. "In other respects the award follows the recommendations of die Conciliation Coun cil, which the parties agreed to accept. The members of the Court were not unani mous in respect of all the provisions of the award, but have decided not to record any individual expressions of opinion.” Coastal Steamers. An award covering cooks and stewards on coastal steamers fixes the rates of pay per month ns follows: —Chief stewards, £1(1 45.; chief cooks. £l6 45.; cook-steward with assistant or assistants. £l6 45.; cook steward where no assistant employed, £lB 45.: chief stewards or cliief cooks employed in vessels to carry twenty or more passengers (extra per month), £1; assistant cooks and/or stewards, £l2 45.; cadet assistant cooks and/or stewards—Under 17 years of age. £8 55.: 17 to 19 years of age. £9 155.: 19 to 21 years of age, £lO 155.; stewardess, £8 Ifis. Bd. Tlie awards come into force on April 1, [ 1929, and shall continue until July 3L 1230.