S.I. No. 109/1964 - Employment Regulation Order (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee) 1964.


S.I. No. 109 of 1964.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (LAW CLERKS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE) 1964.

WHEREAS the Labour Court (hereinafter called "the Court") pursuant to the provisions of Section 43 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 (hereinafter called "the Act"), made an Employment Regulation Order dated the 29th March, 1962 ( S.I. No. 54 of 1962 ) (hereinafter called "the said Order") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called "the Committee") operates;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted to the Court a proposal for revoking the said Order;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has also submitted to the Court the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for fixing minimum rates of remuneration and regulating the conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Committee operates;

AND WHEREAS the provisions of Section 43 of the Act have been complied with;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Court, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 43 of the Act hereby orders as follows —

(1) This Order may be cited as Employment Regulation Order (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee), 1964.

(2) Effect is hereby given to the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto.

(3) The provisions set out in the Schedule hereto shall have effect as from the 11th day of May, 1964 and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

SCHEDULE

PART I

Section 1.—Minimum Rates of Remuneration for Managing Clerks.

A Managing Clerk is a legal assistant (not being a Solicitor) of not less than 10 years' experience who is fully experienced in all the branches of a Solicitor's work conducted in the Office in which he is employed and who is able to, and habitually does, conduct legal cases, including the interviewing of clients, in that Office without constant supervision and who is entrusted with the control of a staff of not less than three.

For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire

For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick

For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford

For workers employed in all other areas.

Per week

Per week

Per week

Per week

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

306

0

299

0

292

0

277

0

Section II.—Minimum Rates of Remuneration for Conveyancing Clerks.

A Conveyancing Clerk is a person who is wholly or mainly engaged in title work in all its branches, including the preparation of contracts, investigation of title, drawing and completion of conveyances, mortgages and other deeds.

For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dun Laoghaire

For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick

For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford

For workers employed in all other areas.

Per week

Per week

Per week

Per week

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

1st year of employment

234

0

228

0

222

6

211

6

2nd year of employment

252

0

245

0

239

0

228

0

3rd year employment and over

270

0

263

0

257

6

243

6

Section III.—Minimum Rates of Remuneration for Costs Clerks.

A Costs Clerk is a person who is wholly or mainly engaged in the drawing and taxation of his employer's costs, and who is not remunerated on a commission basis by his employer.

For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire

For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick

For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford

For workers employed in all other areas.

Per week

Per week

Per week

Per week

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

1st year of employment

224

0

218

5

212

10

203

1

2nd year of employment

233

6

228

0

222

6

211

6

3rd year of employment and over

242

0

236

6

231

0

220

0

Section IV.—Minimum Rates of Remuneration for General Law Clerks (Male) 17 Years of Age and Over.

A General Law Clerk (Male) is a person, other than a Managing Clerk, a Conveyancing Clerk, a Costs Clerk, A Shorthand Typist or a Typist, but who may be a Court Clerk or a Book-keeper, and who is wholly or mainly engaged on clerical duties.

For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire

For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick

For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford

For workers employed in all other areas.

Per week

Per week

Per week

Per week

s.

d

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

1st year of employment

73

6

73

6

73

6

73

6

2nd year of employment

88

4

88

4

88

4

88

4

3rd year of employment

97

0

97

0

97

0

97

0

4th year of employment

105

8

105

8

105

8

105

8

5th year of employment

137

11

137

11

137

11

137

11

6th year of employment

162

9

159

2

156

8

150

5

7th year of employment

179

0

175

3

171

6

164

0

8th year of employment

205

10

200

4

196

2

186

5

9th year of employment and over

224

0

218

5

212

10

203

1

Section V.—Minimum Rates of Remuneration for General Law Clerks (Female) 17 Years of Age and Over.

A General Law Clerk (Female) is a female person, other than a Managing Clerk, a Conveyancing Clerk, a Costs Clerk, a Shorthand Typist, a Typist or a Bookkeeper as defined elsewhere in this Part but who may be a Court Clerk and who is wholly or mainly engaged on and does perform the clerical duties which a General Law Clerk (Male) normally performs.

For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire

For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick

For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford

For workers employed in all other areas.

Per week

Per week

Per week

Per week

s.

d

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

1st year of employment

59

11

59

11

59

11

59

11

2nd year of employment

76

6

76

6

76

6

76

6

3rd year of employment

86

3

86

3

86

3

86

3

4th year of employment

95

11

95

11

95

11

95

11

5th year of employment

127

9

127

9

127

9

127

9

6th year of employment

156

10

153

11

150

11

143

8

7th year of employment

175

7

172

8

168

3

159

8

8th year of employment

196

0

191

7

185

10

177

1

9th year of employment over

204

9

200

5

196

0

185

10

Section VI.—Minimum Rates of Remuneration for Shorthand-Typists, Typists and Book-Keepers (Female).

A Shorthand Typist, a Typist or a Book-keeper (Female) is a female person who is wholly or mainly employed on one or more of the following duties, viz., shorthand, typing, book-keeping, copying, scrivenery, filing, post work or telephone operation.

For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire

For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick

For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford

For workers employed in all other areas.

Per week

Per week

Per week

Per week

s.

d

s.

d.

s.

d.

s.

d.

1st year of employment

59

11

59

11

59

11

59

11

2nd year of employment

76

6

76

6

76

6

76

6

3rd year of employment

86

3

86

3

86

3

86

3

4th year of employment

95

11

95

11

95

11

95

11

5th year of employment

127

9

127

9

127

9

127

9

6th year of employment

137

10

135

0

132

1

130

7

7th year of employment

148

0

145

2

140

9

135

0

8th year of employment and over

158

7

156

0

153

3

146

6

Section VI (a).—Assessment of Service.

A Shorthand Typist, Typist or Book-keeper (Female) who is upgraded to be a General Law Clerk (Female) shall for one year be remunerated on the Section VI scale at the end of which she shall be placed at the next higher salary point in the scale for General Law Clerks (Female).

Section VII.—Overtime Rates.

The minimum hourly rates for overtime shall be as follows :—

(i) For the first two hours of overtime—one-and-a-quarter times the hourly rate as defined in Section II, Part II below i.e., Time-and-a-quarter.

(ii) For all hours of overtime in excess of the first two hours—one-and-a-half times the hourly rate as defined in Section II, Part II below, i.e., time-and-a-half.

PART II

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The following conditions of employment shall apply to all workers referred to in Part I above.

Section I.—Normal Working Week : The normal working week shall not exceed 38 hours. Where the normal working hours prescribed by an employer are 38 or less in any week of not less than five working days, a worker who works the normal working hours so prescribed shall be entitled to the appropriate weekly wage set out in Part I.

Section II.—The Hourly Rate : For full time workers or for part-time workers the hourly rate shall be the appropriate weekly wage divided by 38.

Section III.—Meal Intervals : Meal intervals shall not be reckoned as time worked.

Section IV.—Overtime : All hours worked in excess of 38 in any week shall be overtime and shall be paid for at overtime rates as specified in Section VII, of Part I of this Order.

Section V.—Sundays and Public Holidays : All hours worked on a Sunday or on a statutory Public Holiday shall be paid for at twice the hourly rate as defined in Section II above, i.e., at Double Time.

Section VI.—Annual Holidays : Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates and who qualify for annual leave under the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961 , shall be granted a period of fourteen consecutive days' holidays including two Sundays. Where a worker ceases to be employed by a particular employer before the end of his employment year and has not been allowed annual leave in respect of the period of that year during which he was so employed, the employer shall pay to him on the cesser of that employment one full day's pay for each month of that period during which he worked not less than 135 hours (120 hours in the case of workers under 18 years of age).

PART III

WORKERS IN RELATION TO WHOM THE COMMITTEE OPERATES

Clerical Workers and Messengers, whether whole time or part time, employed by Solicitors in connection with their professional work and by bodies corporate in their law departments under the direction of their law agents, including managing clerks, general law clerks, court clerks, costs clerks, typists, stenographers and book-keepers, but excluding Solicitors' Apprentices and Solicitors.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 7th day of May, 1964.

Signed D. MAC DIARMADA

   A person authorised under Section 18 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 to authenticate the Seal of the Court.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This instrument fixes new minimum rates of pay as from the 11th May, 1964 for certain workers employed in Solicitors' offices. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee.