S.I. No. 22/1963 - Employment Regulation Order (Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee), 1963.

S.I. No. 22 of 1963.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (PROVENDER MILLING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1963.

WHEREAS the Labour Court (hereinafter called " the Court ") pursuant to the provisions of Section 43 of the Industrial Regulations Act, 1946 (hereinafter called " the Act ") made Employment Regulation Order (Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee), 1962 dated 1st February, 1962 (hereinafter called " the said Order ") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called " the Committee ") operates ;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has 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 (Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee), 1963.

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 February, 1963, and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

SCHEDULE

STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Section 1.—WORKERS TO WHOM THIS SCHEDULE APPLIES.

Workers, other than carters and lorry drivers, employed in the manufacture for sale or on commission (including packing where such packing is carried on in conjunction with such manufacture) of animal feeding stuffs by any process whatsoever including the grinding, cutting or flaking of cereals and the mixing of one substance with another substance but excluding production merely by natural agencies or in the course of ordinary farm husbandry.

" Animal feeding stuff " means any article manufactured for use as food for horses, mules, jennets, asses, cattle, sheep, swine goats, or poultry, but does not include grass meal.

Section 2.—ZONES.

In this Schedule—

ZONE A	means the County Boroughs of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Waterford.
ZONE B	means the Boroughs of Drogheda, Sligo, Wexford, Galway, Kilkenny and Clonmel and the Urban Districts of Dundalk and Tralee including in each case an area within a radius of 3 miles from the central post office.
ZONE C	means all other Areas.

Section 3.—STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION.

WEEKLY RATES

	ZONE A Per Week		ZONE B Per Week		ZONE C Per Week
Male Workers	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
Male Workers of 21 years of Age and Upwards	187	10½	170	9¾	161	0
Age 20 to 21 years	140	3¼	128	4½	120	0
"19 "20 "	121	3½	110	7	104	8
"18 "19 "	103	4	93	9	88	6
"17 "18 "	83	5	72	2	67	1
"16 "17 "	66	7	57	11	53	8
Under 16 years of age	58	2	51	4	47	0
Female Workers
Female Workers of 21 years of Age and Upwards	124	6	113	10½	106	11
Age 20 to 21 years	92	10	84	10	79	4
"19 "20 "	80	2	73	8	69	0
"18 "19 "	68	6½	62	6	58	8
"17 "18 "	55	4	48	5	44	1
"16 "17 "	44	1	38	0	35	6
Under 16 years of age	38	5	33	3	30	8

HOURLY RATE

The Hourly Rate shall be ascertained by dividing the appropriate weekly wage by the appropriate number of hours as set out in Section 4 below, calculated to the nearest ¼d.

Section 4.—NORMAL WORKING HOURS.

The normal number of hours to be worked by workers other than shift workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be as follows :—

	ZONE A		ZONE B		ZONE C
	Over 18	Under 18	Over 18	Under 18	Over 18	Under 18
In any week	45	40	46	40	46	40

The normal number of hours to be worked by shift workers shall be as follows :—

	ZONE A	ZONE B	ZONE C
In any week	40	44	45

Section 5.—OVERTIME RATES.

The minimum rates for overtime, which shall be calculated on a daily basis, to apply in respect of hours worked by male and female workers in excess of the normal number of hours of work shall be as follows :—

(a) For all time worked in excess of the normal number of hours of work the overtime rate shall be one-and-a-half times the general minimum time-rate otherwise applicable, i.e. time-and-a-half, except in so far as double time is payable under the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Section.

(b) For all time worked on Sundays or statutory public holidays (or customary public holidays substituted therefor) the overtime rate shall be twice the general minimum time-rate otherwise applicable, i.e., double time.

Section 6.—SHIFT WORK ALLOWANCES.

Shift workers shall receive in addition to the basic statutory minimum remuneration a shift allowance as follows :—

(a) Third or Night Shift, in accordance with the terms of the Shift Work Licence granted by the Minister for Industry and Commerce, an allowance in addition to the statutory minimum remuneration	5/.-
(b) Second or Evening Shift, as above	2/6.

These allowances shall not be computable for overtime.

Section 7.—HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY REMUNERATION.

Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be granted holidays in accordance with the provisions of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961 .

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 7th day of February, 1963.

D. MAC DIARMADA.

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes revised working hours and confirms existing minimum rates of pay of workers employed in the Provender Milling Industry. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee and will be effective as from the 18th February, 1963.