CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4579, 7 June 1917, Page 5

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

HOTEL WORKERS’ DISPUTE

A PARTIAL SETTLEMENT

ARRIVED AT.

After a sitting lasting over three days, a settlement has been reached in the hotel workers’ dispute on all grounds except that of wages, which, has been referred to the Arbitration Court.

The recommendations upon which a settlement had been arrived at are:— Hours of work.—The hours of work of all workers coming within the scope of the award shall be registered by the Shops and Offices Act IC*OS. Except in special circumstances workers shall not be brought- back to work after their day’s work is finished until after an interval of at -least Vi hours, and workers shall lie paid at the rate of time and a-lialf for the time by which such interval is curtailed. provided that- this clause shall not apply to bar assistants who have been off duty during the day for any entinuous period of not less than four hours. The working hours prescribed shall he worked for six days a week. Holidays.—One full holiday in seven days shall be allowed to each worker in every hotel: provided that in snov/ week or any race week, the employer may require any worker to forego the weekly holiday; provided further that the holiday so lost shall he allowed to the worker within the five weeks immediately following. Assistants tpio are substantially employed in hotel bars, and who, under the preceding clause, receive their full day’s holiday on a Sunday, shall he entitled. in addition to such full day’s, holiday, to a half-holiday from 1 p.m. on one of the six working days. A ll the employees shall be allowed, after the completion of twelve months’ service, one week’s holidav on full pay. such holiday to be given ami taken within a period of. three months from the expiry of the 12_ months. General Provisions.—Workers receiving £1 10s per week or less shall he paid overtime at the rate of 8(1 per hour. Workers receiving moro than £1 10s shall he paid at- the rave of time and a half. When no agreement- in writing is made Axing the period of notice, then a notice- of nob less than 4S hours shall he given by either party of the termination of the. service. For the purpose of compute ing wages and broken time, seven days shall count as a week. In case of dismissal without notice an employee shall he entitled to two days’ pay and board and lodging allowance in addition. Employers shall lie entitled to keep in hand two days’ pay. In computing the number of persons employed casual workers shall not bo reckoned, and where the employer himself does the work of any worker affected by this award, he shall be counted as an employee. The usual hoard and lodging clause is inserted. Notwithstanding the rate of wages fixed by the award, the wages of no worker at present in receipt of » higher rate than that provided shad he reduced, so long as he or she continues in their present oi employment. A copy of the aware ;s to he exhibited in the hotels. Every worker shall be provided with a timetable setting forth liis or her daily working hours. No claim fc-r overtime shall be allowed unless notification of the same having been worked lias been given, to the employer m writing, within 2-i hours. In very hotel the occupier shall at all times keep in an approved holiday nook a record of the working dav in the wet -- fixed for the half or whole holiday oi eacli worker. The record shall at ad times he open to inspection oy a worker or the inspector, and shall to signed by each worker before leavn -. the premises. A worker who tails to sign the record or who signs an incorrect record shall he liable to a tmo of £l. Wages are to be paid weekly. If the employer requires the services of any worker he shall make application in the first instance to the local union. If the local union is not in the position to. supply the requmx. worker, the employer may advertise in the local papers for the require:, worker. When local labor is nov available the employer shall ;W> to the secretary of the Hotel Workers’ Union, eithef at Auckland or Wellington. Should neither or ilKv.e unions'be in a position to supply who required worker within 48 hours tno employer may engage whoever m pleases, provided that he shall notny the secretary of the local union too name of the worker so employed. I no usual court clause regarding preference is inserted. The scope of award applies to hotelkeepers within a radius of 10 miles of the Gisborne pest. office. , i - _ Mr. E. Kennedy, at the .conclusion of the sitting, thanked the Commissioner, Mr. T. Harle Giles lor . the able manner in which lie had conducted the hearing, and the employers’ assessors for the manner in wine 1 they had discussed the employers claims. He was disappointed that a full settlement had not been arrived at and regretted that the Commissioner’s fine record as far as Gnborne was concerned had been tinmen in their case. , Mr. F. H. Lawton, on behalf cl the employers, also regretted that a ... ; complete settlement had not, been arrived at. remarking that it was not the Commissioner’s fault tna„ a settlement had not been effected.,