S.I. No. 256/1961 - Employment Regulation Order (Tobacco Joint Labour Committee), 1961.

S.I. No. 256 of 1961.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (TOBACCO JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1961.

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 an Employment Regulation Order dated the 7th December, 1959, (hereinafter called "the said Order") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Tobacco 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 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 (Tobacco Joint Labour Committee), 1961.

(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 25th day of November, 1961, and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

SCHEDULE

PART I

GENERAL MINIMUM TIME-RATES

SECTION I.—MALE WORKERS.

	Per Week
	s.	d.
21 years of age and upwards ... ... ... ... ... ...	143	0
20 and under 21 years of age ... ... ... ... ... ...	92	2
19,, ,, 20 ,, ,,,, ... ... ... ... ... ...	83	5
18,, ,, 19 ,, ,,,,... ... ... ... ... ...	75	5
17,, ,, 18 ,, ,,,, ... ... ... ... ... ...	58	s
16,, ,, 17 ,, ,,,, ... ... ... ... ... ...	52	8
15,, ,, 16 ,, ,,,,... ... ... ... ... ...	46	9
Under 15 years of age .................. ... ...	35	6

SECTION II.—FEMALE WORKERS.

21 years of age and upwards ... ... ... ... ... ...	92	6
20 and under 21 years of age ... ... ... ... ... ...	70	4
19,, ,, 20 ,, ,,,, ... ... ... ... ... ...	65	8 ... ... ... ... ... ...
18,, ,, 19 ,, ,,,, ... ... ... ... ... ...	62	9
17,, ,, 18 ,, ,,,,	48	7
16,, ,, 17 ,, ,,,,..................	43	6
15,, ,, 16 ,, ,,,, ... ... ... ... ... ...	39	8
Under 15 years of age .....................	31	0

For the purpose of calculating the General Minimum Time-Rate payable in respect of each hour of employment, the appropriate weekly rate set out above must be divided, in the case of a worker of 18 years of age or over, by 44 (42½; as from 1st January, 1962) and in the case of a worker whose age is less than 18 years, by 40.

NOTE.—In the case of workers employed on piece work each piece rate paid must be such as will yield in the circumstances of the case to an ordinary worker not less than the appropriate General Minimum Time-Rate.

PART II

NORMAL WORKING HOURS AND OVERTIME RATES

SECTION I.—The normal number of hours to be worked by workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be as follows:—

For Workers who customarily attend on six days a week.
	Workers of 18 years of age is less than or over	Workers whose age is less than 18 years
In any Week ............	44	40
In any Week as from 1st January, 1962	42½	40
On any day other than the Short Day, not exceeding ............	8½	8
On the Short Day, not exceeding ...	4½	4

For Workers who customarily attend on five days a week.

In any Week ............	44	40
In any Week as from 1st January, 1962	42½	40
On any Day, not exceeding......	9	8

Provided that all hours worked on Sundays and on Customary Public and Statutory Holidays shall be regarded as Overtime to which the Overtime Rates shall apply.

SECTION II.—The Minimum Rates for Overtime to apply in respect of hours worked by Male and Female Workers, whether employed on Time-Work or on Piece-Work, in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work, shall be as follows:—

(a) For the First Two Hours of Overtime on any day, except Sunday and Customary Public and Statutory Holidays, the Overtime Rate shall be one-and-a-quarter times the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable—i.e., Time-and-a-Quarter.

(b) For Overtime after the First Two Hours of Overtime on any day except Sunday and Customary Public and Statutory Holidays, the Overtime Rate shall be one-and-a-half times the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable—i.e., Time-and-a-Half.

(c) For all time worked on Sunday and Customary Public and Statutory Holidays the Overtime Rate shall be twice the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable—i.e., Double Time.

(d) For all Hours worked in any week in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work for the week the Overtime Rate shall be Time-and-a-Quarter, except in so far as higher Overtime Rates are payable under the provisions of paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section.

(e) The Overtime Rate shall be payable where on any day (not being a Sunday or a Customary Public or Statutory Holiday) the number of hours worked exceeds the declared normal number of hours of work for that day, notwithstanding that the number of hours worked does not exceed the declared normal number of hours of work for the week.

PART III

DEFINITION OF WORKERS

The above Statutory Minimum Remuneration and Statutory Conditions of Employment shall apply, subject to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , and of this Order, to all workers in respect of any time during which they are employed in any Branch of the Trade specified in the Trade Boards (Tobacco) Order, 1919, that is to say:—

The manufacture of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, cigarette tubes and snuff, including all preparatory processes, and including also the operations of storing and storekeeping, boxing, packeting, labelling, parcelling and despatching, and all other warehousing and packing operations, incidental to the manufacture of any of the above-mentioned articles; but excluding (a) the growing of tobacco; (b) all or any of the processes necessary to render fresh tobacco fit for grading; (c) all or any of the processes necessary to render cured tobacco fit for manufacture.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Court this 15th day of November, 1961.

(Signed) P. D. McCARTHY.

A person authorised under Section 18 of the Act to authenticate the Seal of the Court.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Instrument fixes minimum rates of pay and conditions of employment as from the 25th November, 1961, for workers employed in the Tobacco Trade. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Tobacco Joint Labour Committee.