DOMESTIC SERVANTS AND THEIR EMPLOYERS

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11874, 2 March 1907, Page 4

DOMESTIC SERVANTS AND THEIR EMPLOYERS

Wellington, March 1 The demands made in connection with the terms of empoyraent of domestic servants are attracting considerable attention owing to proceedings before -the Arbitration Court being probable. A meeting of women who employ , domestic workers is lo be held next week, withjthe object of forming a Union of Employers, as ha 3 been done by the girls. The Secretary of the Domestic Workers' Union has received a letter from a resident of the city who employs several servants, in the course of which she says that the domestic workers employed by her have for years had all the privileges that are now being demanded, but they do not all leave the house at the same time, and their hours of relaxation are arranged among themselves. Private houses, she points out, are not like shops oi factories, whicH can be shut up at will.