S.I. No. 178/1981 - Conditions of Employment (Plastics Manufacture) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

S.I. No. 178 of 1981.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (PLASTICS MANUFACTURE) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1981.

I, TOM NOLAN, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 29 and 52 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the form of industrial work specified in these Regulations and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Plastics Manufacture) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, plastic extrusion operation as carried on at the premises of Kwik Lok (Ireland) Limited, Bay 72, Industrial Estate, Shannon, in the county of Clare, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of section 34 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

4. The following provisions shall have effect in respect of the work to which these Regulations relate:

( a ) no shift shall be longer than 12 hours in duration;

( b ) no worker shall work on 2 consecutive shifts;

( c ) no worker shall work on any shift unless at least 12 hours have elapsed since he last worked a shift;

( d ) no worker shall work for so many hours in any week than the average number of hours per week worked in any 4 consecutive weeks would exceed thirty-six;

( e ) each worker shall be allowed in each shift at least:

(i) one fifteen minute break to be taken after the first one and a half hours of work;

(ii) one half hour break to be taken after 4 hours of work;

(iii) one fifteen minute break after 5½ hours of work, and

(iv) one half hour break to be taken during the last four hours of work.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of May, 1981.

TOM NOLAN,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Section 34 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 provides that no shift shall be longer than 9 hours duration. The purpose of these Regulations is to permit the employment of adult workers on 12 hour shifts on a plastic extrusion operation as carried on at the premises of Kwik Lok (Ireland) Limited, Bay 72, Industrial Estate Shannon, Co. Clare.