RESTAURANT WORK

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 231, 29 August 1938, Page 12

RESTAURANT WORK

HOURS AND WAGES. AGREEMENT REACHED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. After deliberations extending over three days, an agreement was reached in Conciliation Council yesterday on the application of the New Zealand Federated Hotel, Restaurant and Related Trades Employees’ Association of Workers for a new Dominion award covering tearoom and restaurant employees. It was agreed that the hours of work should be 44 .a week; to be worked within five and a half days in each week. One full day’s holiday and a halfholiday are to be allowed in each week. Employees who work on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day and the Sovereign’s Birthday' are to be paid, in addition to their ordinary w'eekly wage, the following amounts: Waitresses, housemaidwaitresses, pantry maids, relievingmaids, linen-maids, laundresses, housemaids, counter hands, dispensers, female workers and other workers receiving the minimum rates of pay, ss; porters, kitchen hands, cooks and other workers receiving £2 10s or less weekly, 6s; all other workers, 7s, for each of the holidays worked. On the coming into force of the award, all employers are to allow one week and two days’ holiday on full pay on completion of 12 months’ continuous service, employers to give each employee seven days’ previous notice of his or her intention to give the holiday. The agreement provides that not more than 120 hours’ overtime shall be worked in anv one year. The following overtime rates were fixed: —Waitresses, housemaid-waitresses, pantrymaids, reiieving-maids, linen-maids, laundresses, housemaids, counter hands, dispensers and other female workers in receipt of the minimum wage. Is 9d per hour for the first four hours, and 2s 4d thereafter. Porters, kitchen hands, male and female general hands, cooks, and other workers receiving less than £2 10s weekly, 2s per hour for the first four hours, and 2s 9d per hour thereafter. All other workers, 2s 9d for the first four hours, and 3s 8d thereafter. WAGES RATES.

The following minimum weekly rates of pay were agreed to, those for females being given in parentheses: Kitchen. —AVhere six or more hands are employed : Chief cook, £5 10s (£4 16s 6d) ; second cook, £4 (£3 9s); third cook, £2 15s (£2 6s 6d); all other workers* £2 12s 6d (£2 Is 6d). Where five hands are employed : Chief cook, £5 7s (£4 13s 6d); second cook, £3 17s (£3 6s); third cook, £2 14s 6d (£2 6s); all other workers, £2 12s 6d (£2 Is 6d). Where four hands are employed : Chief cook, £4 4s 6d (£3 16s); second cook, £2 17s (£2 8s 6d); all other workers, £2 12s 6d (£2 Is 6d). AVhere two hands are employed: Chief cook, £3 7s (£2 18s 6d); second hand, £2 14s 6d (£2 2s 6d). Where one hand is employed: £2 14s 6d (£2 0s 6d). The kitchen hand attending to boiler will receive 5s a week extra.

The following weekly rates' of pay were agreed to for dining-room and other staff:’ Waiter, £3 4s 6d; head waitress (if three or more waitresses are employed), £2 Is; other waitresses, £1 17s 6d; housemaid-waitress, £1 17s 6d; housemaid. £1 17s 6d; pantrymaid, £1 17s 6d; laundress. £1 17s 6d; linen-maid, £1 17s 6d ; relieving maid, £1 17s 6d ; pantryman, £2 12s 6d; day porter, £2 12s 6d; night porter, £2 14s 6d; oyster-opener, £3 3s; male general hand, £2 12s 6d; female general hand £2 6s; bar-attendants, counter hands, and/or dispensers m marble bars, milk bars, and such establishments, £3 4s 6d for male and £1 17s 6d for female. CASUAL LABOUR. The following daily rates of pay were fixed for casual labour: Male chef, £1 10s; female chef, £1 7s 6d; second male cook, £1 2s 6d; second female cook, £1; other workers, males 17s 6d, females 15s; waiters, £1; waitress, housemaid, housemaid-waitress, 15s. Pantryman, 17s 6d a day; pantrymaids, 12s 6d a day, porters and general hands, 17s 6d; laundresses. 12s 6d. A worker will be deemed to be employed as a casual worker if his or her engagement is for less than seven days. 'The following daily rates were fixed for special occasions such as laces, banquets, balls, outings, etc. (those for females are in parentheses): Clnel cook, £1 12s 6d (£1 10s); second cook, £1 7s 6d (£1 ss); male kitchen hands, £1 (17s 6d); waiters and pantry hands, £1 (17s 6d); waitresses ,15s Waiters and male bar-attendants may be employed between 8 a.m. and 11.30 p.m., or between 9 p.m. and 12 midnight at a wage of £2 a week. It was decided that the hours of work and rates of pay for emergency female workers employed in theatre sweet shops in which milk drinks, ice cream, and other refreshments aTe sold should be argued before the Court of Arbitration at Christchurch.

The award is to operate throughout the Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland industrial districts and will include Stewart Island. It will apply to workers employed in tearooms and restaurants and all such like establishments, opened to the public for the sale and consumption of food and drink. A unanimous resolution was passed requesting the Court of Arbitration to make the agreement into an award, the rate of wages to take effect on September 5 next.