REGULATING WAGES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26043, 5 January 1946, Page 6

REGULATING WAGES

BRITAIN’S CATERING TRADE “BOARDING HOUSE” DEFINED Any person in Britain “ who normally makes four bedrooms of his house available for the use of visitors ” should be regarded as carrying on a boarding house business, states the report of the Catering Wages Commission. The report (says The Times) makes recommendations to the Minister of Labour to extend the scope for the four wages boards to include workers in unlicensed hotels, inns, boarding houses, hostels, and holiday cajnps. The com--mission estimates that about 70,000 boarding houses and 6000 unlicensed hotels are likely to come within the scope of its proposal. “We have no precise idea of the number of workers, but on the basis of the information we have we should not expect it to be less than 100,000,” it is stated. The commission states that the application of the accommodation test should not be too narrowly applied at the moment. “ Our examination of the arrangements for regulating wages and conditions in local authority. establishments, hospitals, nursing homes, and convalescent homes, orphanages, children’s homes and homes for the aged and indigent, and ufiiversities, colleges, and schools is proceeding as quickly- as possible,” says the report.