Sanitary conveniences (toilets, showers and tubs) should be separately enclosed. Those for men and women should be remote from each other and plainly marked. Sanitary conveniences should be clean and light, and there should be a sufficient number to each floor for the number of employees using them.
There should be hospital accommodations provided in accordance with the size of the establishment. The room should have beds so that workers who are ill can be segregated from the other employees.
A sitting room should be provided, quiet, with comfortable chairs, where visitors are permitted.
The food served to workers should constitute a well-balanced diet, wholesome, varied, appetizing and sufficient in quantity. It should be served in a well-lighted and aired, quiet and clean dining room.
The Consumers’ League recommends that a minimum wage law be passed in New York State which shall include the hotels in its application.
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It is suggested that it be the duty of special employees to care for the workers’ rooms and also to serve the meals, remove the dishes and keep the tables clean in the employees’ dining room or cafeteria.
It is suggested that employees be interviewed and hired by a person understanding the technique of the selection of workers and the requirements of the various jobs in the hotel, with the purpose of securing an efficient force of workers and reducing the turnover of labor. An experienced person, preferably a woman, should be responsible for the introduction of the new employee to her job, her training, her transfer or promotion.
The conditions of living-in, while the system is continued, should be under the supervision of a competent woman.
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