S.I. No. 87/1957 - Employment Regulation Order (Women's Clothing and Millinery Joint Labour Committee), 1957.


S.I. No. 87 of 1957.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (WOMEN'S CLOTHING AND MILLINERY JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1957.

WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Section 42 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 (hereinafter called " the Act ") the Women's Clothing and Millinery Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called " the Committee ") has submitted to the Labour Court (hereinafter called " the Court ") the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for 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 the Employment Regulation Order (Women's Clothing and Millinery Joint Labour Committee), 1957.

(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 8th day of May, 1957.

SCHEDULE.

(a) For the purpose of determining the Minimum Rate applicable, there shall be included in the calculation of the period of employment of a Learner one-half of the period of such Learner's attendance at a whole-time course of instruction in the Trade at a Technical School (which may include a reasonable amount of general education) such instruction being given by a teacher whose qualification has been approved by the Department of Education and being of a minimum duration of two years.

(b) A worker must be paid not less than the appropriate minimum piece work basis time rate in respect of all time during which he is on the employer's premises unless the employer can prove that such worker was so present (a) without the employer's consent expressed or implied or (b) for some purpose unconnected with his work and other than waiting for work to be given to him to perform or unless (c) only by reason of the fact that he was resident on the premises or (d) during normal meal hours in a room or place in which no work is being done. A worker on piece work is deemed during " Waiting Time " to have been employed at the general minimum piece work basis time rate applicable.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 2nd day of May, 1957.

(Signed) E. DE BURCA.

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Instrument provides that (a) one half of the period of a Learner's attendance at a whole-time course of instruction in the trade at a Technical School shall be included in the assessment of the Minimum Rate of wages payable to the Learner and (b) that time spent by a worker on his employer's premises waiting for work to be given him shall be regarded as " Waiting Time " and paid for at not less than the specified minimum rates.