WAGE RATE DISPUTED
HOTEL KITCHEN WORKERS EXTRA HALF-CROWN ASKED (Prr Pii'ss Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A difference of 2s (id a week between the wage claims of the workers and the offers of employers prevented almost a complete agreement in the licensed hotel employees' dispute in the Conciliation Council yesterday.
A 40-hour week was agreed upon, to be spread over !>> days, work on the half-holiday not to be more than four hours. Wherever practicable, the employers undertook to work a fiveday week. The employers offered a 5 per cent increase in wages for the general staff, and a 5 per cent increase for porters, whose wages will now be £2 10s a week, while a 10 per cent increase was offered for male kitchen workers to make their wages £2 12s Gd. The workers considered that the kitchenmen's wages should be £2 15s,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19378, 16 July 1937, Page 4
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