Holidays (Employees) Act, 1939

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Number 1 of 1939.


HOLIDAYS (EMPLOYEES) ACT, 1939.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definitions generally.

2.

Workers.

3.

Employer of worker in mines to which the Coal Mines Act, 1911, applies.

4.

Continuous employment.

5.

“Employment year” and “employment half-year”.

6.

Construction of expression “allow a whole holiday.”

7.

Public holidays as respects industrial workers.

8.

Public holidays as respects non-domestic workers who are not industrial workers.

9.

Rights of non-domestic workers in respect of public holidays.

10.

Annual leave of non-domestic workers.

11.

Restriction on work by industrial worker during annual leave.

12.

Annual leave of domestic workers.

13.

Payment in lieu of board and lodgings during leave.

14.

Penalties for non-payment and recovery of moneys due to workers.

15.

Records.

16.

Powers of Inspectors.

17.

Variation of existing contracts.

18.

Offences by bodies corporate.

19.

Prosecution of offences.

20.

Emergency as defence.

21.

Regulations.

22.

Laying of orders and regulations before Houses of the Oireachtas.

23.

Expenses.

24.

Repeal of certain provisions of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936.

25.

Short title and commencement.

SCHEDULE.

Penalties for Certain Offences.


Acts Referred to

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

No. 2 of 1936

Shops (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1938

No. 4 of 1938

Public Holidays Act, 1924

No. 56 of 1924

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Number 1 of 1939.


HOLIDAYS (EMPLOYEES) ACT, 1939.


AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE ALLOWANCE OF HOLIDAYS TO CERTAIN EMPLOYED PERSONS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTER AFORESAID. [17th February, 1939.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—