WAITRESSES’ HOURS.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sib, —Knowing that your columns are open for correspondence upon subjects that concern the well-being of the community, or any section of it, I have determined to bring a certain matter before the notice of your readers. _ I read lately of various employers of labor being mulcted in fines because they detained girls and women at work after legal hours. Hotelkeepers are not allowed to have barmaids carrying out their duties after eleven o’clock at night, but keepers of refreshment rooms seem to have matters pretty much their own way ; for at one of these establishments in town the young women engaged as waitresses have to work from eight o’clock in the morning until eleven o’clock at night from Monday till Friday, inclusive of both; and this not being enough for their employer, they are required to work an hour extra on Saturdays, being kept at work till midnight. I think the proprietor would prosper none the less wore he to arrange matters so that additional waitresses might relieve the hard-worked lasses, and by this means secure to them Fair Play. Dunedin, March 15.
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Evening Star, Issue 7161, 15 March 1887, Page 3
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189WAITRESSES’ HOURS. Evening Star, Issue 7161, 15 March 1887, Page 3
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