TEAROOM WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 13

TEAROOM WORKERS

SUCCESS IN COUNCIL

nOM CLAUSE LEFT TO COURT

■ When the Conciliation Council rose {yesterday, a complete settlement of |the tearoom workers' dispute had been teffected with the exception of one jclause concerning the rates to be paid [to emergency female workers in ftheatre sweets shops in which icebream, milk drinks, and other refreshnnents are sold. This clause, it was agreed, should be argued before the Second Court of Arbitration at Christc;h.urch, when an application will be made to the Court to make the agreement into an award. The new wages scsile, which represents an increase of approximately 5s a week in the case of-,males and 2s 6d weekly in the case of females, is to come into operation asafrom September 5. The new award is [to operate throughout the Northern, Turanaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, Otago, an^d Southland industrial districts, anjd! will include Stewart Island, which prfeviously did not come under the provisions of the award. IAI 44-hour week was agreed upon, wittii an annual holiday of a week and twt>i days. Tine following minimum weekly rates of pay were agreed upon:— j Where six or more hands are employed: Chief cook, £5 10s; second] cooki, £4; third cook, £2 15s; all other i worfkers, £2 12s 6d; females, chief; cook* £4 16s 6d; second cook, £3 9s; thirtdj cook, £2 6s 6d; all other workers, £2 Is; 6d. Whfsre five hands employed: Chief cookJ £5 7s; second cook, £3 17s; thirriPcook, £2 14s 6d; all other work- i ers, £.2 12s 6d; females, chief cook, £4 13s 6d; second cook, £3 6s; third cook, j £2 6tej; all other workers, £2 Is 6d. Where four hands are employed: Chief?cook, £4 17s; second cook, £3 7s; third icook, £2 14s 6d; all other workers, £12 12s 6d; females, chief cook, £4 3s 6d;isecond cook, £2 16s; third cook, £2 2s^6d; all other workers, £2 Is 6d. Whjere three hands employed: Chief cook,. i£4 4s 6d; second cook, £2 17s; all other workers, £2 12s 6d; females, chief iciook, £3 16s; second cook, £2 8s 6d; aIJE other workers, £2 Is 6d. Whfere two hands employed: Chief cook, j£3 7s; second cook, £2 14s 6d; femalies, chief cook, £2 18s 6d; second cook, £2 2s 6d. Whefle one hand is employed: Male, £2 14sj 6d; female, £2 5s 6d. The rweekly rates for other classes of woiikers were agreed on as follows:—1 Waiter, £3 4s 6d; head waitress (where* three or more employed), £2 Is Od; other waitresses, £1 17s 6d; housenjiaid-waitress, £1 17s 6d; housemaid, £1 17s 6d; pantrymaid, £1 17s 6d; laujndress, £1 17s 6d; linen maid, £1 17s, 6d; relieving maid, £1 17s 6d; pantryijnan, £2 12s 6d: day ported, £2 12s 6d; night porter, £2 14s 6d; oyster opener, £3 3s; male general hands, £2 12s 6d; female general hands, £2 6s; bar att<*ndants, counter hands, and/or dispensers in marble bars, milk bars, and similar establishments, male £3 4s 6d, feimale, £1 17s 6d.

Agreement was reached on the casual labour uates and rates for special occasions.