HOTEL WORKERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10537, 13 March 1920, Page 6

HOTEL WORKERS

AN AWARD FIRED. The award of the Arbitration Chart in the Wellington District Hotel, Oltib and Restaurant Workers’ dispute has been filed, • ( The hours of work are not to exceed sixty hours a week, and .10 hours a day for males, and forty-eight a weeK and eight a day for females. Tie hours shall he worked within a 14 hours’ margin, which shall be reckoned from the time of starting to the time of linishing. Except in special circumstances wofkers are not to be brought Dack after their day’s work in finished until, after an interval of at least ten hours. These hours shall be worked within six days in every week. Double rates are to be paid on Christmas Day, Good Friday and the Sovereign’s Birthday’; time and a half on Labour Day, Boxing Day, and Easter Monday. A week’s holiday on full pay is to . be given in every year. Kitchen hands’ wages are to be from £4 15s (for chefs) down to £1 las for other hands in the case of. males, and £3 15s to £1 10s in the case of females. Head waiters are to get- £2 15s, others £2 10s and waitresses £1 6s. maids £1 os, laundresses £1 7s 6d, day potters £1 To, night porters £1 l7g 64, and pantrymen. £1 12s 6di In addition there is to be a bonus of 5s a weeki .