S.I. No. 76/1973 - Employment Regulation Order (Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee), 1973.

S.I. No. 76 of 1973.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (PROVENDER MILLING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1973.

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 Employment Regulation Order (Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee), 1972, dated, 15th June, 1972 ( S.I. No. 151 of 1972 ) (hereinafter called "the said Order") fixing the statutory minimum rates of remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Provender Milling 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 the minimum rates of remuneration and regulating the statutory 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 (Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee), 1973.

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 1st April, 1973 and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

SCHEDULE

STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

SECTION I.—WORKERS TO WHOM THIS SCHEDULE APPLIES

Workers, other than carters and lorry drivers, employed in the manufacture for sale or on commission (including packing where such packing is carried on in conjunction with such manufacture) of animal feeding stuffs by any process whatsoever including the grinding, cutting or flaking of cereals and the mixing of one substance with another substance but excluding production merely by natural agencies or in the course of ordinary farm husbandry.

"Animal feeding stuff" means any article manufactured for use as food for horses, mules, jennets, asses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats or poultry, but does not include grass meal.

SECTION 2.—ZONES

In this Schedule—

ZONE A means the County Boroughs of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Waterford.

ZONE B means all other areas.

SECTION 3.—STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION

	Zone A	Zone B
MALE WORKERS	£	£
Male Workers of 21 years of age and upwards	23·59	22·39
Age 20 to 21 years	21·23	20·15
Age 19 to 20 years	18·87	17·91
Age 18 to 19 years	16·51	15·67
Age 17 to 18 years	14·15	13·43
Age 15 to 17 years	11·80	11·20
FEMALE WORKERS
Female Workers of 21 years of age and upwards	17·52	16·89
Age 20 to 21 years	15·77	15·20
Age 19 to 20 years	14·02	13·51
Age 18 to 19 years	12·26	11·82
Age 17 to 18 years	10·51	10·13
Age 15 to 17 years	8·76	8·44

Cost of Living Supplement: The above rates to be increased by 10p per week from 1st July, 1973.

Phase II —Basic wages at the end of the first phase will be increased by 4% from 1st April, 1974, and for each 1% increase in the Consumer Price Index over 4% in the year covered by the first phase a 16p per week supplement shall be added.

Hourly Rate—The hourly rate shall be ascertained by dividing the appropriate weekly wage by 40.

SECTION 4.—NORMAL WORKING HOURS

The normal number of hours to be worked by workers shall be 40 hours in any week.

SECTION 5.—OVERTIME RATES

The minimum rates for overtime, which shall be calculated on a daily basis, to apply in respect of hours worked by male and female workers in excess of the normal number of hours of work shall be as follows:—

( a ) For all time worked in excess of the normal number of hours of work the overtime rate shall be one-and-a-half times the general minimum time-rate otherwise applicable, i.e. time-and-a-half, except in so far as provided for under the provisions of paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of this Section.

( b ) For all time worked on Sundays the overtime rate shall be twice the general minimum time-rate otherwise applicable i.e. double time.

( c ) For all time worked on stautory public holidays (or customary public holidays substituted therefor) the overtime rate shall be twice the general minimum time-rate otherwise applicable, i.e. double time, exclusive of the statutory entitlement under the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961 .

( d ) Overtime on the normal weekly day off to be payable at twice the standard rate after completion of the 1st five hours from the employees normal starting time, for which period the existing rate of time and one half shall be maintained.

SECTION 6.—SHIFT WORK ALLOWANCES.

Shift workers shall be paid at a rate of time plus one-sixth of the basic rate. These allowances shall not be computable for overtime.

SECTION 7.—HOLIDAY AND HOLIDAY REMUNERATION.

Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be granted holidays in accordance with the provisions of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961 , except that workers with one year's service with the same employer (reckoned from the date on which the worker first took up employment with the Employer) shall be granted five additional days' Annual Leave.

SECTION 8.—SERVICE PAY.

Male and female workers who have been in continuous employment with the one employer to be granted service pay as follows:—

Employees with	5 years'	continuous service and over	25p	per week.
" "	10 "	" " " "	50p	" "
" "	15 "	" " " "	75p	" "
" "	20 "	" " " "	£1·00	" "

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 28th day of March, 1973.

(Signed) J. G. McCAULEY.

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from 1st April, 1973, for workers employed in the Provender Milling Industry. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee.