S.I. No. 9/1958 - Employment Regulation Order (Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee), 1958.

S.I. No. 9 of 1958.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (BRUSH AND BROOM JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1958.

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 the Employment Regulation Order (Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee), 1952, (hereinafter called " the Principal Order ") fixing the minimum rates of remuneration to be paid generally to and regulating the conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called " the Committee ") operates ;

AND WHEREAS the Court pursuant to the same section of the Act also made the Employment Regulation Order (Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee), 1956 (hereinafter called " the amending Order ") ;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted to the Court the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for fixing the minimum rates of remuneration to be paid generally 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 (Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee), 1958.

(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 18th day of January, 1958, and as from that date the Amending Order shall be revoked and the Principal Order shall be amended by the substitution of Part II of the Schedule hereto for Part VI, Sections I and II, of Schedule I to the Principal Order.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

SECTION I.—In addition to any payments due to him under the Principal Order, a male worker of 21 years of age or over, whether on Time Rates or Piece Rates, shall be paid a wage at the rate of 26s. per week of 48 hours.

SECTION II.—In addition to any payments due to her under the Principal Order, each female worker of 21 years of age or over in the Twigmaking Branch of the Trade and each female worker of 18 years or age or over in the Brush and Broom Branch shall be paid a wage at a rate of 17s. per week of 48 hours.

SECTION III.—Hourly rates paid to Juvenile Workers (other than apprentices) shall be increased by 15 per cent. on the hourly rates applicable and specified in the Principal Order calculated to the nearest farthing.

SECTION IV.—Notwithstanding anything contained in Sections II and III above, the provisions of those Sections shall not apply to female workers paid in accordance with Part V of Schedule I of the Principal Order.

PART II.

GENERAL MINIMUM PIECE-RATES FOR FEMALE WORKERS.

The General Minimum Piece-Rates for Female Workers employed on the operations specified in this Part of this Schedule shall be the rates set out in this Part with an addition of 97½ per cent.

SECTION I.

GENERAL MINIMUM PIECE-RATES FOR MACHINE-DRAWN WORK.

All rates are for Fibre or Bristle drawn through unless otherwise stated.

	Rate per 100 Knots
Machine Roller Lags, drawn full	5¼d.
Lags drawn in spirals (revolving) flat card, 4 in. by 2 in.	5¼d.
Comber Brushes or Rollers, in two halves	5¼d.
Thread, Card, Winders, Dressing or Plaiting Machine Brushes or similar Slips	5¼d.
Platt's Bobbins	5¼d.
Asa Lee's Bobbins	5¼d.
Asa Lee's Circular (drawn through side)	5¼d.
Leather Strips	6½d.
Paste Brushes or Short Slips	4½d.
Heald Lags or Starching Lags	5¼d.
Reel Brushes	5¼d.
Colliers' Lamp Brushes	5¼d.
Bar, Cog, Wheel, Twisters or Lease Brushes	5¼d.
Roller and Ring	5¼d.
Wheel Polishing or Tentering	6½d.

EXTRAS.

Root in hole or spit knots	1½d. per 100 knots extra.
Penetrating	1½d. " "
Drawn through side	¾d. " "
Kitool	¾d. " "
Bass (i.e., Piassava, African or Bahia) and H.V. quality Bassine	2½d. " "
1¼d. in the 1s. extra where drawing hand has to cut off.

SECTION II.

GENERAL MINIMUM PIECE-RATES FOR HAND-DRAWING.

TOILET BRUSHES.

	Rate per 100 Knots
Cloth Common Roach (fibre middle) including trimming	3½d.
" " ( " ) if machine trimmed	3d.
" Octagon Ends ( " ) including trimming	3½d.
" " ( " ) if machine trimmed	3d.
" Bell (fibre middle) including trimming	3½d.
" " ( " ) if machine trimmed	3d.
" Bell Common Veneered, F. or K. including trimming	3½d.
" " " " if machine trimmed	3d.
" other than above specified, including trimming	3½d.
" " " " if machine trimmed	3d.
Flesh	3½d.
" long handled	3¾d.
" if machine trimmed	3d.
" if machine trimmed, long handles	3½d.
Hair 130, 66 and like pattern	3½d.
" Bristle, mixed with Horn or Bone	3¾d.
" Whalebone, flat cut	4¼d.
" Whalebone, ball cut	4¾d.
" other than above specified	3½d.
All hair brushes ¼d. per 100 knots less if machine trimmed.
Hat, including trimming	3d.
" if machine trimmed	2¾d.
Nail, including trimming	3d.
" if machine trimmed	2¾d.

TREPANNED BRUSHES.

Cloth, including trimming	5¼d.
Hat, including trimming	5d.
Nail, including trimming	5d.
if trimming is not performed the rate in each case is subject to ½d. reduction.
Hair	5¼d.

IVORY BRUSHES.

1.10d. per dozen extra on Hair, Hat and Cloth brushes

1. 2d. per dozen extra on Nail and other small brushes.

HOUSEHOLD BRUSHES.

Billiard	3¾d.
Boot Top, shear cut	3d.
" hard shear cut	3¼d.
Can, Fibre, or Bass	3¾d.
" Pure Bahia	4d.
Carriage Washing, drawn double	4¼d.
" " root in hole	6½d.
Churn, Bass	5d.
" long handled, shear cut	4d.
Crevice or Sash, single end, bristle	4¼d.
Crumb	3½d.
Dandy Bass	4¾d.
" whisk	4¼d.
" bassine	3¾d.
" bone	4¼d.
" quill	5d.
Davy lamp	5d.
Deck Scrub	4d.
Dish	3d.

	Rate per 100 Knots.
Dish, hard	3½d.
Floor Polishing, up to 10 in. by 5 in.	3¾d.
" " over 10 in. by 5 in.	5d.
Furniture	3½d.
Furniture porcupine	6½d.
Horse fibre or mixed	3¾d.
" bristles	4¼d.
Paper-hanging, drawn with root in hole	6½d.
Pick and Lye, root in hole	3½d.
Plate	3½d.
"Hard	3¾d.
Round Oil	3d.
Saucepan, drawn handled	3¾d.
Scrubs, household, bristle and mixed	3½d.
" household fibre, bass (other than Bahia)	3¾d.
" union	3¾d.
" household, pure Bahia	4d.
Shoe, blacking and polishing	3¼d.
Shoe, hard	3½d.
Stove	3¼d.
" hard	3½d·
" porcupine	3¾d.
Spoke, fibre or mixed	3¾d.
" bristle	4¼d.
" porcupine	5d.
Sink, bristle, oblong pattern	3½d.
Water, fibre or mixed	3¾d.
Water, bristle	4¼d.
W.C. porcupine	5¼d.

EXTRA.

2½d. extra per dozen brushes for each wing, snout or tuft.

BROOMS, SWEEPS, ETC.

Brooms, cocoa	4¾d.
" whisk	5d.
" drawn bass, single wire	6d.
" drawn bass, double wire	6¼d.
" window	3¾d.
" Bassine, monkey, Madagascar,Kitool and union fibre	4¾d.
Banisters, cocoa	4¾d.
" whisk	5d.
" Bass	5¼d.
" Bassine, monkey, bass, Kitool, Madagascar fibre and union fibre	5d.
Brooms, and Banister, double drawn, hair	4¼d.
" " root in hole	5½d.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 15th day of January, 1958.

(Signed) E. de BURCA.

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This instrument fixes new minimum rates of pay as from the 418th January, 1958, for workers employed in the Brush and Broom Trade. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee.