No. 193/1938:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (SHEET GLASS WORKS) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1938.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (SHEET GLASS WORKS) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1938.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of Section 29 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by order make regulations (in the said Act referred to as exclusion regulations) declaring any specified form of industrial work to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of all or any of the sections of Part III of the said Act :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of Section 52 of the said Act that whenever the Minister for Industry and Commerce makes regulations declaring any form of industrial work to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of any section of Part III of the said Act which relates to the hours during which an employer may permit any worker to do for him any form of industrial work, the said Minister may by order make regulations fixing in such manner as he may think fit the hours of work in respect of such form of industrial work for all or any classes of workers engaged in such form of industrial work :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (2) of the said Section 52 that whenever the said Minister fixes by regulations made under the said Section 52 the hours of work in respect of any from of industrial work (whether for all or for any particular class or classes of workers engaged therein) the said Minister may by the same regulations make such provisions as he shall consider to be necessary or proper for securing that the average weekly earnings payable in a normal full working week to any person whose hours of work are reduced by such regulations shall not be reduced merely because of such reduction in his hours of work :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 29 and 52 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, and having first consulted with representatives of employers and representatives of workers pursuant to subsection (2) of the said Section 29 and subsection (3) of the said Section 52, hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Sheet Glass Works) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1938.

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

3. The form of industrial work specified in the Schedule to these Regulations is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of Sections 32 , 33 , 34 and 41 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

4. The hours of work in respect of the form of industrial work declared by the preceding regulation to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of Sections 32 , 33 , 34 and 41 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , are hereby fixed as follows, that is to say :—

(a) the workers shall be employed under a system providing for at least four shifts;

(b) the hours of work of each worker shall not exceed an average of 42 per week, such average being calculated over a period not exceeding four weeks ;

(c) the length of a spell of work shall not exceed eight hours ;

(d) the interval between two spells of work by the same shift shall not be less than sixteen hours: Provided that this interval may where necessary be reduced on the occasion of the periodical change over of shifts.

5. The average weekly earnings payable in a normal full working week to any person whose hours of work are reduced by these regulations shall not be reduced merely because of such reduction in his hours of work.

SCHEDULE.

The industrial work done by workers who work in successive shifts in necessarily continuous operations in sheet glass works which manufacture by automatic machines sheet glass or other glass of the same characteristics which only differs from sheet glass in thickness and other dimensions ; that is to say, in all operations which on account of the automatic and continuous character of the feeding of the molten glass to the machines and of the working of the machines are necessarily carried on without a break at any time of the day, night or week.

Given under the Seal of Office of the Minister for

Industry and Commerce this 7th day of June,

1938.

JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce