RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 142, 15 May 1930, Page 7

RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES.

AWARD FILED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 14. Taking effect from June 2, 1930, and continuing in force until June 2, 1931, the Dominion teo room and restaurant employees’ award lias been filed in the Arbitration Court. The award will operate through the northern Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson. Westlaml, Canterbury, Otago and Southland industrial districts. Fortyleight hours is to constitute a week’s work and not more than eleven hours slial lbe worked on any day without payment of overtime. 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 11 hours, and workers shall be paid at the rate of time and a-lialf for the time widen such interval is curtailed. No female is to be employed after the hour of 10.30 p.m. in contravention of the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22. One full day’s holiday of 24 consecutive hours is to be allowed to every worker covered by the award. Employees who work on Christmas Day or Good Friday are to be paid double rates for such work. Employees who work oil Boxing Day, New Tear’s Day, Easter Monday, the King’s birthday, and Labour Day are to be paid time and a-half rates. One week's holiday ion full pay on the competition of 12 months’ continuous service is to_-.be allowed all employees. Mr Justice Frazer, in a memorandum, said that a number of clauses were in dispute, most of which’ have, been settled on the basis of the private hotels award. It has been decided to postpone tho coming into operation of clause 15 (regarding time sheets) until the beginning of the first pay week in August. It is suggested that' employers and the union will find it . advantageous to agree in the meantime on a uniform form to be used, and the postponement of the operation of the clause has been decided upon for this reason.