PRIVATE HOTELS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 10

PRIVATE HOTELS

EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. Representatives of employers and employees in private hotels thrashed out their differences in the Arbitration Court to-day. When the dispute was heard before the Conciliation Commissioner last month, all the matters were agreed upon with the exception of the claims for wages for special day's, sitting room accommodation for the staff, staff maids’ uniforms and the definition of a private hotel. These and the scope of the award were discussed to-day. The Y.M.C.A. desired exemption from the award. The employers are asking for only one slight departure from the existing award, namely, the deletion of two words from the definition of kitchenwork in clause 6 of the old award. The union on the other hand is asking for several new provisions, all of which would prove expensive to the employers, and also for substantial increases in \yages. On behalf of employers it was stated that the guests of private hotels (apart from permanent boarders) were mainly people travelling for pleasure. The business traveller patronised licensed hotels. The union, it was pointed out, should consent to the existing award continuing in operation for at leasl another 12 months; in fact, if all the parties to the last award were able to maintain their full complement of workers on tho old conditions for another year it would be well for all concerned.

Several private hotel proprietors gave evidence concerning tne falling off of business during the last 18 months.

The court reserved its decision