S.I. No. 62/1983 - Employment Regulation Order (Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee), 1983.

S.I. No. 62 of 1983.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (AGRICULTURAL WORKERS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1983.

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 16th July, 1982 ( S.I. No. 222 of 1982 ) (hereinafter called "the said Order") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called "the Committee") operates;

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

AND WHEREAS the Committee has also submitted to the Court the proposals set out in the schedule hereto for fixing the statutory rates for benefits or advantages applying to 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 the Employment Regulation Order (Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee), 1983.

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 7th March, 1983 and as from that date the said Order shall be amended.

NOTE: Enquiries should be addressed to the Joint Labour Committees Section, The Labour Court, Mespil Road, Dublin 4. (Phone 765861, Extension Nos. 169 and 182).

BENEFITS OR ADVANTAGES.

1. Where any agricultural employer provides any agricultural worker in his employment with all or any of the benefits or advantages specified at (2) below, such benefits or advantages shall for the purpose of computing the remuneration paid to such agricultural workers, be reckoned as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash and the value at which any such benefit or advantage so provided is to be so reckoned shall be defined at (2) below.

2. Benefits or advantages and value at which they are to be reckoned as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash.

	Workers aged 19 years and over	Workers aged 18 years and under 19	Workers aged 17 years and under 18	Workers aged 16 years and under 17	Workers aged 15 years and under 16
Benefits or Advantages	From 7.3.83	From 7.3.83	From 7.3.83	From 7.3.83	From 7.3.83
(i)	£	£	£	£	£
Board and Lodging per day	4.06	3.63	3.30	2.83	2.45
Board per day	3.69	3.28	2.93	2.47	2.07
Breakfast per day	0.73	0.59	0.56	0.45	0.38
Dinner per day	1.83	1.65	1.45	1.25	1.08
Afternoon tea per day	0.35	0.34	0.23	0.21	0.20
Supper per day	0.73	0.59	0.55	0.45	0.38
Lodging per day	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35
(ii) House or Cottage without garden or with a garden not exceeding one statute rood: Per week	1.11	1.11	1.11	1.11	1.11
(iii) Fresh Milk per gallon	1.11	1.11	1.11	1.11	1.11

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 3rd day

of March, 1983.

(Signed) MICHAEL CORCORAN

A person authorised under Section 18 of the Industrial Relations

Act, 1946 to authenticate the Seal of the Court.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes with effect from the 7th March, 1983 statutory rates of benefits or advantages applying to agricultural workers as defined by the Industrial Relations Act, 1976 . It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee.