S.I. No. 244/1975 - Conditions of Employment (Whey Processing Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1975.

S.I. No. 244 of 1975.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (WHEY PROCESSING INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1975.

I, MICHAEL O'LEARY, 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 (Whey Processing) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1975.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the maintenance of continuous running plants as carried on at the premises of Wyeth Ireland Limited at Askeaton in the county of Limerick, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of section 33 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 12 hours duration;

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

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

( d ) no worker shall work for more than 56 hours in any week.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 16th day of October, 1975.

MICHAEL O'LEARY,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , prohibits the working of shifts of longer than nine hours duration on industrial work. The purpose of these Regulations is to allow Wyeth, Ireland Limited to employ male adult workers on twelve hour shifts between 8 a.m. and 8 a.m. the following day at their premises at Askeaton, Co. Limerick.