COOKS AND WAITERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1917, Page 2

COOKS AND WAITERS

* BESTAURANT AND TEA-ROOMS DISPUTE. ' As stated yesterday, an .agreement was arrived at by the Conciliation Council in the private hotels section of the private hotels, restaurants, and tearooms dispute. The wages scale of the licensed hotels aiward.was..adopted, for kitchen/and d.ining-room employees. This gives rates .ranging from, £4 10s., per week for chef -where five or more-hands arc /employed .dowii to, £1 12s 6d, for othe'r,.kitchen hands. „Batea for females are to be three-quarters of those' prescribed for males, /with a mininnim,,oi' £i,ss. Fqiv dining-room employees, the wages'agreed upon are:. Head waiter, £2 Vis 6d;-.waiters, £1 17s 6d; : waitresses, £1' 'te; pantrymen, £1 12s 6d; panitrymaids;,.£l .45.,. Where /board is not provided, there .is to be. an additional .allowance: of 15s, and where lodging is licit provided, 7s 6d.-.Any room provided for employees shall, contain not less than 400 cubic, feet .of air-space for each person sleeping, therein. > . ;., . With regard to restaurant and tea", room .employees,, the hours of the; Shops and Offices Act were accepted, with on^ clear..day's holiday, ea,ch ,week tor workers in 7-day establishmenfe, and a: halfholiday in 6-day . establishijieiite. .Workera, ar" '•) bo, supplied, with two substantir.! i:.i m each,. *uH working day, or .receive ills, additional. .Only one ,or two of the minor..wages clauses m this seation of the dispute were agreed, upon, the balance being ...referred to..the. Arbitration Court. tt was agreed that where special uniforms were required to be worn they should be provided by the employer.