NEW DOMINION AWARD

Southland Times, Issue 23599, 29 August 1938, Page 2

NEW DOMINION AWARD

WORKERS IN HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS COMPLETE AGREEMENT IS REACHED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 26. After deliberations extending over three days an agreement was reached in the Conciliation Council today on the application of the New Zealand Federated Hotel, Restaurant and Related Trades Employees’ Association of Workers for a new Dominion award covering tearoom and restaurant employees. It was agreed that the hours of work should be 44 a week to be worked within five and a-half days in each week. One full day’s holiday and a half-holiday are to be allowed each week. The employees who work on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Mon* day, Labour Day and the King’s birth*, day are to be paid extra in addition to their ordinary weekly wage. On the coming into force of tha

award all employers are to allow on* week and two days’ holiday on full > pay on the completion of 12 months’ continuous service, the employers to give each employee seven days’ previous notice of the intention to give a holiday. The agreement provides that not more than 120 hours’ overtime shall be worked in any one year. The following minimum weekly rates of pay were agreed to, those for females being given in parentheses:— Kitchen, where six or more hands are employed, chief cook £5 10/- (£4 16/6), second cook £4 (£3 9/-), third cook £2 15/- (£2 6/6), all other workers £2 12/6 (£2 1/6). Where five hands are employed, chief cook £5 7/- (£4 13/6), second cook £3 17/- (£3 6/-), third cook £2 14/6 (£2 6/-), all other workers £2 12/6 (£2 1/6). ' Where four hands are employed, chief cook £4 4/6 (£3 16/-), second cook £2 17/- (£2 8/6), all other workers £2 12/6"(£2 1/6). Where two hands are employed, chief cook £3 7/- (£2 18/6), second hand £2 14/6 (£2 2/6). Where one hand is employed, £2 14/6 (£2 0/6). A Idtchen hand attending to a boiler will receive 5/- a week extra. WEEKLY RATES OF PAY The following weekly rates of pay were agreed to for the dining-room and other staff; waiter £3 4/6, head waitress (if three or more waitresses are employed) £2 1/-, other waitresses £1 17/6, housemaid waitress £1 17/6, housemaid £1 17/6, pantrymaid £1 17/6, laundress £ll7/6, linen maid £1 17/6, relieving maid £1 17/6, pantryman £2 12/6, day porter £2 12/6, night porter £2 14/6, oyster opener £3 3/-, male general hand £2 12/6, female general hand £2 6/-, bar attendants, counter hands and (or) dispensers in marble bars, milk bars and such establishments £3 4/6 for males and £1 17/6 for females. The following daily fates of pay ■were fixed for casual labour: Male chef £1 10/-, female chef £1 7/6, second male cook £1 2/6, second fe- < male cook £l, other workers—males 17/6, females 15/-, waiters £l, waitress, housemaid, housemaid-waitress 15/-, pantryman 17/6, day pantrymaids 12/6, porters and general hands 17/6, laundresses 12/6.

A worker will be deemed to be employed as a casual worker’if his or her engagement is for less than seven days, Daily rates were fixed for special occasions, such as races, banquets, balls and outings. Waiters and male bar attendants may be employed between 8 a.m. and 11.30 p.m., or between 9 p.m. and midnight at a wage of £2 a week. It was decided that the hours of work and rates of pay for emergency female workers employed in theatre sweet shops in which milk drinks, ice cream and other refreshments are sold should be argued before the Court of Arbitration at Christchurch.

The award is to operate throughout the northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury and Otago and Southland industrial districts, and will include Stewart Island. It will apply to workers employed in tea rooms and restaurants and all such-like establishments opened to the public for the sale and consumption of food and drink on the premises, and will include workers employed in clubs not classed as chartered clubs. The award was unanimous.

A resolution was passed requesting the Court of Arbitration to make the agreement into an award, the rate of wages to take effect on September 5 next.