PENALTY UNDER AWARD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 96, 21 March 1940, Page 8

PENALTY UNDER AWARD

In the Magistrate’s Court, on Tuesday, before Mr 11. P. Lawry, S.M., James Henry Burrell faced an information laid by the Labour Department that, from October 16 to December 11. ho employed more probationer waitresses than permitted by the New Zealand tearooms and restaurant employees’ award. For the Labour Department, Air C. P. Collins said that the award allowed for the employment of one probationer waitress to every three or part of three experienced waitresses. For two iveeks defendant had four waitresses and four probationers. and he rectified the matter when his attention was drawn to it. In Alay, 1939, defendant received a written warning concerning the same type of subject. For defendant, Mr J. A. Grant said the probation period for a waitress was six months. Waitresses had left and defendant had been faced with the position, when he could not immediately replace them, of’either reducing staff (by one probationer in one week and two the next week), of increasing the wages of one of the probationers to the grade for experienced waitresses, or of securing further staff. Defendant was not flouting the award. He had applied to the union headquarters, 7irivate labour offices and had advertised for experienced waitresses, but had been unable to get them. It would he detrimental to his business for defendant to promote probationer waitresses before the normal time. The Alagistrate imposed a nenaltv of £l.