S.I. No. 38/1954 - Employment Regulation Order (Messengers (Dublin City and Dún Laoghaire) Joint Labour Committee), 1954.

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 (Messengers (Dublin City and Dún Laoghaire) Joint Labour Committee), 1953, (hereinafter called " the said Order"):

AND WHEREAS the Messengers (Dublin City and Dún Laoghaire) Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called " the Committee ") has submitted to the Court a proposal for amending the said Order :

AND WHEREAS the Committee has also submitted to 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 (Messengers (Dublin City and Dún Laoghaire) Joint Labour Committee), 1954.

(2) Effect is hereby given to the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto.

(3) The proposals set out in the Schedule hereto shall have effect as from the 6th day of March, 1954, and as from that date the said Order shall be amended by the addition of Sections 1 and 2 of the Schedule hereto to Sections 1 and 2 respectively of the Schedule to the said Order, by the substitution of Section 3 of the Schedule hereto for Section 8 (2) of the Schedule to the said Order, and by the addition of Section 4 of the Schedule hereto to the Schedule of the said Order.

SCHEDULE

Section 1

" (c) A worker to whom a registered employment agreement for for the time being applies."

Section 2

" The provisions of Sections 3 to 8 inclusive of this Schedule shall not apply to workers employed solely on the delivery of newspapers or periodicals and who are not employed for more than three hours on any day."

Section 3

" (2) Where a worker ceases to be employed by a particular employer before the end of his employment year and has not been allowed annual leave in respect of the period of that year during which he was so employed, that employer shall pay to him on the cesser of that employment one full day's pay for each month of that period during which he worked not less than 120 hours for that employer."

Section 4

" Section 14—Absence without leave

If a worker absents himself from work without leave for any day, or portion of a day, the employer shall have the right to deduct from the worker's remuneration a sum equivalent to the pay for such time so missed on a basis pro rata to the worker's normal working week."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court, this 24th day of February, 1954.

E. de BURCA,

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