DOMESTIC WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 9

DOMESTIC WORKERS

FORMATION OF A UNION

At the general meeting of the Agricultural, Pastoral, and Domestic Workers' Union, it was agreed that the domestic workers form a separate union, to be named tho North Island Domestic Industrial Workers' Union. The head office to be in Wanganui. Miss Heeney to be organising secretary. Branch divisions will be organised in Auckland, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Gisborne, Hastings, Palmerston North, Masterton, and Wellington. A. scale of wages was agreed to with regard to conditions of work for domestic workers other than hotels and boarding houses, as follows: —Men cooks, first class, £3 10s; second class, £3, third class, £2 10s; women cook general,, £2 10s, £2 ss, £2; women cook laundress, £2 ss, £2, £1 15s; house parlourmaid, £2, £1 13s, £1 10s; parlourmaid, £2, £1 las, £1 10s; housemaid, £1 15s, £1 10s, £1 ss; pantrymaid, £1 12s Gd, £1 10s, £1 ss; nursery housemaid, £1 12s Gd, £1 10s, £1 ss; lady-help, £1 10s, £1 ss, £1; girls under 17, £1 ss, £1; 15s; married couples, £4, £3 10s; £3 ss. It was also decided to urge that one full day off bs allowed every week, and that overtime should be charged for time worked over 48 hours per week at the rate of time and a half. In lieu of allowing one full day's holiday of 24 hours in each week, it can be arranged" by mutual" agreement for an employer to allow any worker leave of absence on full pay of fourteen dnys for every period of three months, during which tho day's holiday is so suspended,, or.iv tho event of the service not_ continuing for three months, for a period proportionate to tho length of service. Employees who work Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, shall be paid double pay. All ear or bus fares to be paid both ways from railway station by. employer, railway fares to be paid one way by employer.

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