S.I. No. 334/1981 - Conditions of Employment (Plastic Injection Moulding and Grinding) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

I, LIAM KAVANAGH, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 29 and 52 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the form of industrial work specified in these Regulations and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Plastic Injection Moulding and Grinding) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, plastic injection moulding and grinding as carried on at the premises of Form Grinders Limited, Dromcollogher, in the county of Limerick, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of section 34 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

4. The following provisions shall have effect in respect of the work to which these Regulations relate:

(a) no shift shall be longer than ten hours in duration;

(b) no worker shall work on two consecutive shifts;

(c) no worker shall work on any shift unless at least twelve hours have elapsed since he last worked a shift;

(d) no worker shall work for so many hours that the average number of hours worked in any four consecutive weeks would exceed forty;

(e) each worker shall be allowed in each shift at least a one hour break to be taken during the first six hours of work.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 provides that no shift shall be longer than 9 hours in duration. The effect of these regulations is to permit the employment of adult workers on 10 hour shifts on plastic injection moulding and grinding as carried on at the premises of Form Grinders Limited, Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick.