S.I. No. 240/1966 - Employment Regulation Order (Tobacco Joint Labour Committee), 1966.

S.I. No. 240 of 1966.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (TOBACCO JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1966.

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 28th October, 1964, ( S.I. No. 255 of 1964 ) (hereinafter called " the said Order ") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the statutory 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 had also submitted to the Court the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the statutory 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 Employment Regulation Order (Tobacco Joint Labour Committee), 1966.

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 7th day of November, 1966 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	211	0
20 and under 21 years of age	136	0
19 " " 20 " " "	123	0
18 " " 19 " " "	111	2
17 " " 18 " " "	86	3
16 " " 17 " " "	77	8
15 " " 16 " " "	68	11
Under 15 years of age	52	4

Section II.—Female Workers.

	Per week
	s.	d.
21 years of age and upwards	138	9
20 and under 21 years of age	105	4
19 " " 20 " " "	98	4
18 " " 19 " " "	94	0
17 " " 18 " " "	72	9
16 " " 17 " " "	65	2
15 " " 16 " " "	59	5
Under 15 years of age	46	5

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 42½ 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 would 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 of 18 years of age or over	For workers whose age is less than 18 years
In any week	42½	40

Provided that all hours worked on Sundays and on Customary and Public 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 26th day of October, 1966.

(Signed) D. MacDIARMADA,

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes new statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from 7th November, 1966, for workers employed in the Tobacco Trade. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Tobacco Joint Labour Committee.