RESTAURANT AWARD
CLARIFICATION DESIRED. CASE AT HAMILTON. Per Press Association. HAMILTON, Aug. 3. An interpretation of the New Zealand Tea Rooms and Restaurant Employees Award, 1936, was questioned in the Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton to-day when the Labour Department claimed a £lO penalty against Adams and Sons, caterers, of Auckland, for an alleged breach of the award ill that the firm underpaid a casual pantrymaid at the Te Rapa race meeting on February 20. A further claim for a penalty of £lO was brought on the grounds that defendant failed to pay travelling time to the pantrymaid. The defence submitted that the award was anomalous and desired an early clarification of the position. An alteration to the interpretation as at present understood by a.ll caterers in New Zealand would mean that thousands of pounds would have to be paid in back wages and, further, until a definite ruling was obtained no company could tender for race meetings with any degree of safety for fear that a big loss would be made after the Court’s decision. The dispute mainly concerned clauses 7 and 8 of the award, which detailed the different rates of wages for casual employees engaged at firms’ premises or away from them. Defendant submitted that, as they had only a depot at Auckland where no cooking was done where the plant was kept, each racecourse was the firm’s premises. The Labour Department did not agree with this, but admitted that the award was ambiguous. The Magistrate’s decision was reserved.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 209, 4 August 1937, Page 14
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251RESTAURANT AWARD Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 209, 4 August 1937, Page 14
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