COOKS AND STEWARDS.
NEW AWARDS FILED.
MAJORITY DECISION OF COURT. WELLINGTON, February 28. Three awards have been filed affecting the Federated Cooks and of New Zealand Industrial Association of Workers. In the case of the stewards provision is made for the payment of a 50 per cent, addition to the wages fixed when a vessel is placed in commission for the purpose of some emergency or excursion.
In a memorandum Air Justice Frazer states that the court has settled the clauses relating to wages, signing off and on articles on the same day, limited period of employment, shore pay, overtime, hours of work at sea and in port, nightwatchmen, holidays in port, Sunday and holiday excursions, weelily time off, meal hours, uniforms, definitions of preference, application of -award, and term of award. In other respects the award ’follows the recommendations of the Conciliation Council, which the parties have agreed to accept. The decision is that of a majority of the court. Air Alonteith dissente,d because no meal hour had been provided for stewards at sea.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 15
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