ARBITRATION COURT
PRIVATE HOTEL EMPLOYEES
Points of difference between the employees in private hotels and their employers were ventilated in the Arbitration Court to-day. Tor the employers Mr. Bishop appeared, the employees' side being advocated by Mr. F. Niall and Mr. A. Jackson, the Court consisting of his Honour Mr. Justice Frazer and Messrs. W. Scott and A, L. Monteith.
The matters which were in dispute were the clauses in the new award relating to wages, special.holidays, staff maids, sitting-room accommodation, uniforms, and the scope of the award. A preliminary argnment took place as to whether the V.M.C.A. should be made a party to the award, Mr. Niall saying that they should be, as they had been for the last sixteen years. "It is only because they have recently been shaken up by compensation claims that they desire exemption," said Mr. Niall.. "Theirs is a public dining-room, and I understand that anyone unless they are 'stunned can get morning tea or lunch there." Mr. Bishop answered that this was not so; they now catered solely for their own people. Further argument on the subject of this and other exemptions was held over.
Wages on the same scale as those paid in licensed hotels were asked for. It was also asked that the definition of a private hotel should be amended to include all houses boarding twelve or more guests.
Mr. Bishop said that in any period of depression private hotels were hard hit because people ceased travelling for pleasure. Business people who had to travel patronised licensed hotels. The present time was therefore inopportune for increasing the expenses of private hotelkeepors, and he suggested that the present award should continue in force for another year.
Evidence was called to show that there had been a slump in boarders Btaying at private hotels: matters had been steadily getting worse, and in many cases staffs had been reduced. The competition of the small boardinghouse was seriously affecting the private- hotels. :.•.'■/
(Proceeding.^
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1927, Page 9
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