HOTEL EMPLOYEES
WAGES DISPUTE Bv Teleernnn Pres- Asso.-ianon WELLINGTON. July 15. A difference of 2/6 a week between , the wage claims of the workers and the > offers of the employers prevented an , almost complete agreement in the licensed hotel employees dispute in the ! Conciliation Council to-day. A 40-hour | week was agreed upon to be spread - over five and a half days, work in the j half-holiday not to be more than four hours. Wherever practicable the employers undertook to work a five-day 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 now will be £2/10/a week. A 10 per cent Increase was offered to male kitchen workers to make their wages £2'l2/6. The workers agreed to the other proposals but considered that dtchenmen’s wages should be £2/15/-. The hearing will continue to-morrow.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20781, 16 July 1937, Page 6
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