CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 November 1924, Page 5

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

HOTEL EMPLOYEES’ AWARD. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Nov. 7. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr W. Newton, presided at a hearing of the claims of the New Zealand Federated Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Industrial Association of Workers for a Dominion award. This was the third sitting. A complete agreement was reached.

Hours of work per week (48), holidays and conditions were agreed to, and the scope of the award is to be for two years. In regard to wages, in a kitchen With six hands the chief male cook is to receive £5 ss; chief female cook, £4 14s. Five hands, £5 2s and £4 11s respectively. Four hands, £4 12s and £4 Is. Three hands, £3 10s 6d and £3 3s 6d. Two hands, £3 2s and £2 16s. One hand, ££2 9s 6d and £2 3s 6d. Kitchen hand attending to boiler, 5s per week extra.

Dining-room waiter, £2 17s; head uf.itress (if three or more employed), £*l'l7s 6d; other waitresses, £l*lsfi; housemaid-waitress, £1 15s. Other glasses of housemaid, pantrymaid, laundress, ’ linenmaid. and relieving maid, £1 15s each; pantryman and day porter, £2 5s each; night porter, £2.75; oyster opener, £2 15s 6d. General hands—male, £2 ss; female, £2 2s 6d; bar attendants, counter hands or dispense re in marble bars — male, £2 17s; female, £1 15s. At the conclusion the Commissioner congratulated the parties upon having reached an agreement.