HOTEL WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 27 May 1925, Page 16

HOTEL WORKERS

APPLICATION FOR DOMINION

AWARD

CONSIDERATION BEFORE CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

The industrial dispute of tho New Zealand Hotel and Restaurant Employees was considered to-day by a Conciliation Council. A new Dominion award was sought by the union. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. A. Newton, presided, and associated with him wore the following assessors:—Messrs. A. Jackson, Auckland; R, a. Brooks, Chris'tchurch-; G. S. Thomson, Dunedin; J. M'Kenzie, Wellington; R, Fulton, New Plymouth; H. O'Malley, Wellington (for the union), and Messrs. A. A. Brown, Auckland; J- N. M'Lean, Rotorua; D. F. O'Keilly, Wellington; F. E. Lewis, Christchurcb; W. J Hogg, Timaru; H. F. Dencker, Uunedin for the employers). Mr. B. L. .Hammond acted as agent for the employers with Mr. W. A. Grenfell. I lie union claimed a forty-eight hour week and an eight-hour day. The employers offered a 48-hour week, as suggested, but stipulated that not more than ten hours should bo worked in n day without payment of overtime. The union claimed provision for twelve clear hours between the end of one day's work and the beginning of tho next, while tho employers .desired a tun hours Interval. .

Special conditions in regard to holidays were stipulated by the employers in rogard to the area within a radius of ten miles of the chief post offices in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

The minimum weekly rates of pay claimed by tho union ivcre as follow, tho counter-claims of the employers being^ mentioned in parentheses:— Kitchen.—Wliere seven or more hands are employed: Chief cook, £7 10s'; second cook, £6; extra second cook, £5 10s; third or vegetable cook, £4; fourth cook, £3 10s; all other workers, £2 10s. "Where six hands are employed: Wiief cook, £7; second cook, £5 10s; third or vegclablo cook, £4; fourth cook, £3 10s; all other workers, £2 10s. Where five hands are employed: Chief cook, £6 (£5 2s, females £4 11s); second cook, £5 (£3 12s, females £3 3s 6d) ; third cook, £3 5s (£2 9s 6d» females £2 us 6J)j all other workers, £2 10s (£2 2s, females £1 16s). Where four hands aro employed: Chief cook, £5 10s (£4 12s. females £4 Is); second cook, £4 10s (£3 2s, females £2 13s 6d); third cook, £3 10s (£2 7s, females £1 18s 6c]); all other workers, £2 10s (£2 2s, females £1 16s). Where three hands are employed: Chief cook, £4 10s (£3 19s 6d, femalcu £3 13s 6d); second cook, £3 10s (£2 12s, females £2 6s); all other workers, £2 10s (£2 2s, females £1 16s). Where two hands are employed: Chief cook, £3 10s (£3 2s, females £2 16s); second, £2 15s (£2 4s 6d, females £1 18s 6d). Where.one hand is employed: Cook or general, £3 5s (£2 9s 6d. females £2^3s 6d). Kitchen hand, 5a per week extraagreed to by both parties. Dining-room.—The union claimed the following rates:—Head waitress (if three aro employed), £2; head waitress (if four or more are employed), £2 10s ; other waitresses, £1 15s; housemaidwaitress, £1 15s; housemaid, £1 15s; pantrymen, £2 ]0s; pantry-maids, £1 15s; general hands .(female), £2 7s; laundress, £1 37s 6d; linonmaids, £1 17s 6d; porters (night), dry wage, £4 10s; porters (day), £2 10s; general hands (male), £2 10s.

The counter-claims offered :—Head waitress _ (engaged as such), £1 16s; other waitresses, £l!lls; housemaidwaitresses, £1 lls; housemaids, £1 lls ; pantrymen, £2 2s; pantrymaids, £1 lls; porters (night), £2 7s; porters (day), £2 4s; general hands (male), £2 4s; general hands (female), £2 Is; laundresses, £1 13s 6d; linenmaids, £1 13s 6d; relieving .maids, £1 lls.