S.I. No. 180/1981 - Employment Regulation Order (General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour Committee), 1981.

S.I. No. 180 of 1981.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (GENERAL WASTE MATERIALS RECLAMATION JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1981.

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 (General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour Committee), 1975 dated 10th December, 1975 ( S.I. No. 296 of 1975 ) (hereinafter called "the said Order") fixing the statutory minimum rates of remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the General Waste Materials Reclamation 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 statutory minimum rates of 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 (General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour Committee), 1981.

(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 May, 1981 and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

SCHEDULE

PART I

General Minimum Time Rates for all Workers.

Category I

For the following categories of workers: Crane drivers, lorry drivers, fork-lift drivers, machine operators, metal burners, metal sorters, and labourers.

	Per Week
	From Date of Order
	£
21 years of age and over	67.27
20 years of age and under 21	61.13
19 years of age and under 20	54.89
18 years of age and under 19	48.70
17 years of age and under 18	39.95
16 years of age and under 17	34.17
Under 16 years	29.86

Category II

For the following categories of workers: cloth graders, balers, packers, rag cutters and stitchers.

	Per Week
	From Date of Order
	£
Under 17 years of age	41.62
17 years of age and under 18	47.40
18 years of age and over	55.65

Second Phase

Under this second phase the basic pay of employees shall be increased by 7% (or by such percentage as shall be decided by the Employer Labour Conference) from 25th May, 1981 from which date the increased basic wages as provided shall be payable.

PART II

Normal Working Hours and Overtime Rates

Section I.—

( a ) The normal working week shall be one of 5 days.

( b ) The normal hours of work in any week shall be 40 hours.

provided that—

(1) All time worked on Saturday, Sunday and Customary Public or Statutory Holidays shall be regarded as Overtime to which the Overtime rates shall apply.

(2) The Overtime Rates shall be payable in respect of all time worked on any day in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work for that day notwithstanding that the number of hours worked in the week does not exceed the declared normal number of hours for the week.

(3) The Overtime Rates shall be payable in respect of all time worked in any week in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work for that week except in so far as the Overtime Rate is payable under the provisions of the preceeding paragraphs of this Section.

Section II.—

The Minimum rates for Overtime to apply in respect of hours worked by Categories I and II 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 all time worked in any week, except Sundays and Customary Public or Statutory Holidays, in excess of the declared normal number of hours for the week, the Overtime Rate shall be time-and-a-half the minimum rate otherwise applicable, i.e. time-and-a-half.

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

PART III

Annual Holidays

Those workers who do not have 17 days annual leave shall be entitled to a total of 17 days leave. The entitlement to these additional day(s) shall be based on the provisions of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 .

PART IV

Workers in Relation to whom the Committee Operates

The above minimum rates of wages shall apply, subject to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , to all workers in respect of any time during which they are employed in any Branch of the Trade specified in the Trade Boards (Waste Materials Reclamation) Order, 1920 that is to say:—

1. The collecting, sorting or grading of the following materials:—

Rags; waste paper, paper stock, woollen worsted, cotton jute, flax, hemp or other textile waste, textile clippings or cuttings, used bags, sacks or sacking, scrap rubber, scrap iron or other scrap metal, fur cuttings, rabbit skins, bones or fat, used tins, broken glass or earthenware.

2. The collecting, sorting or grading of the following articles when collected, sorted or graded in association with or in conjunction with the collecting, sorting or grading of the waste materials specified above:—

Discarded clothing (inducing head-gear or foot-gear); discarded textile articles, old ropes, used bottles or used jars.

3. The following operations when carried on in association with or in conjunction with the collecting, sorting or grading of any or all of the waste materials specified in (1) above:—

The ripping of worn clothes for rags, the picking of old ropes, the trimming of paper salvage, the washing of used bottles or used jars, the washing of used tins, the breaking of scrap metal, the drying of rabbit skins, the making or repairing of sacks or bags, the willowing, pulling, scouring, carbonising or putting down mixings of textile waste.

4. The operations of receiving, packing, compressing, teagling, craining, despatching or warehousing when carried on in association with or in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned operations; but excluding;

( a ) any of the above-mentioned operations when carried on in the establishments in which the waste materials are produced, or in which they are used as raw materials for further manufacture.

( b ) the making or repairing of sacks or bags when carried on in a factory or workshop engaged solely or mainly in the making or repairing of sacks or bags.

( c ) the collecting, sorting, grading or drying of rabbit skins when carried on in an establishment in which such operations are the main or principal business or when carried on in or in association with or in conjunction with any business, establishment, branch or department engaged in the manufacture of hatters' fur.

( d ) (i) the collecting, sorting or grading of cotton waste when carried on in an establishment in which such operations are the main or principal business;

(ii) any of the operations included in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 above, other than operations specified in paragraph (d) (i) above, when carried on in association with or in conjunction with any establishment of the kind specified in sub-paragraph (i) above.

PART V

In the case of workers employed on piece-work, each piece rate must be such as will yield in the circumstances of the case to an ordinary worker, not less than the appropriate statutory minimum remuneration. In determining whether any piece-rate satisfies this condition regard must be had only to the earnings of ordinary workers, i.e. workers of ordinary skill and experience in the class of work in question and not to the earnings of workers of less or greater than ordinary skill and experience e.g. learners and infirm workers.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 14th day ofMay, 1981.

(Signed) MICHAEL CORCORAN,

A person authorised under Section 18 of the Industrial Relations

Act, 1946, to authenticate the Seal of the Court.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes new minimum rates of pay and regulates conditions of employment of workers employed in the General Waste Materials Reclamation Trade, as from 18th May, 1981. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour Committee.