HOTEL EMPLOYEES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 4

HOTEL EMPLOYEES

2JEW DOMINION AWARD

The Arbitration Coui-t has issued a new Dominion licensed hotel employees' ward. The main features of the award are: — The daily span of working hours has been reduced from 14 to 13. New Year's Day has been added to the list of special holidays. The annual holiday has been increased by two days. There are no. alterations in the rates of wages, or in respect to the employment of casual labour. A lengthy clause has been inserted covering distant engagement of'workers.

Unmarried barmen have been given the right to elect to live off the premises, m which case they are to be entitled to 10s per week lodging allowance. Night porters living off the premises are to receive two substantial meals each day and 10s, per week cash allowance, in lieu of the usual board and lodging provision applicable to other workers.

The .employer is obliged to provide a first-aid medical outfit for use of the establishment. A clause is added in respect to the provision of uniforms In a dissenting judgment, Mr. L J Schmitt employers' representative; states that he does not agree to the decision of the majority of the Court ■in respect to the reduction of the working span to 13 hours; nor to the inclusion as kitchen workers of those employees who are engaged cleaning plates. The new award comes into force on | the 21st Ootober, and will have a.currency of two years.