HOTEL WORKERS’ AWARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 9

HOTEL WORKERS’ AWARD.

A RISE IN WAGES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 18. After a five days’ hearing in the Conciliation Council complete agreement was reached on Saturday in the licensed hotels employees’ dispute before Mr S. Richie, Conciliation Commissioner. Mr W. J. Mountjoy, secretary of tho Wellington Employers’ Association, was agent for the employers and Mr F. G. Young for the workers. It was decided that the hours of work be 40 a week to be worked within five and a-lialf days in each week. Overtime is to he paid for at one and aquarter times ordinary rates for the first four hours and twice the ordinary rate thereafter. The usual statutory holidays are to be observed and overtime is to be paid for work on those days. Provision was made for nine days’ holiday annually on full pay on completion of 12 months’ service. In the country districts the usual weekly holidays cah bo accumulated over a period of three months. The scale of wages agreed upon was the same as the 1936 award rates, plus five per cent, except in the_ case ot kitchemnen whoso wage was increased to £2 15s a week • plus hoard and lodging. The rates for casual workers were increased five per cent, on the 1936 award and for workers employed on special occasions the increase has been more than five per cent, in some cases. The new award as far as wage alterations are concerned comes into force on August 1, 1937, and has a duration of one year. The other provisions are to come into force as soon as the award has been made by the Court.