S.I. No. 24/1958:

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (BUTTON-MAKING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1958.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (BUTTON-MAKING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1958.

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 22nd November, 1955 (hereinafter called the " said Order ") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Button-Making 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 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 (Button-Making Joint Labour Committee), 1958.

(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 1st February, 1958 and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

SCHEDULE.

The rates which shall apply to workers employed within the Administrative County of Dublin and the County Borough of Dublin shall be The Rates Set Out Hereunder.

The rates which shall apply to workers employed in All Other Areas shall be The Rates Set Out Hereunder Subject To a Reduction of 5 Per Cent.

PART I.

MALE WORKERS.

Section I.--General Minimum Time-Rates for certain Male Workers employed in certain operations, that is to say :--

Male Workers--

(a) Who are employed in any of the following operations :--

or

(b) Who are employed in Turning or Cutting by Machine (other than Cutting Pearl or Trocas Buttons on wet lathes) and who are responsible for setting their own tools ; or who are employed in Turning or Cutting by hand ;

or

(c) Who have had not less than One Year's experience in Turning by Machine (with responsibility for setting their own tools) and are employed in the setting up of turning Machines :--

Workers of 21 years of age or over :--

Section II.--General Minimum Time-Rates for Male Workers, other than workers to whom the minimum rates set out in Section I above apply :--

Section III.--Piece-Work Basis Time-Rate for all Male Workers :--

PART II.

FEMALE WORKERS.

Section I.--General Minimum Time-Rates for all Female Workers :--

Section II.--Piece-Work Basis Time-Rate for all Female Workers :--

PART III.

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 :--

(a) For that class of workers who customarily attend on six days a week--

(b) For that class of workers who customarily attend on five days a week--

Provided that--

Overtime shall be payable where on any day the number of hours worked exceeds the declared normal number of hours for that day, notwithstanding that the number of hours worked in the week does not exceed the declared normal number of hours of work for the week.

Section II.--The Minimum Rates for Overtime payable in respect of all time worked by any worker, whether male or female (and whether employed on Time-work or on Piece-work) in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work as set out in Section I of this Part, shall be as follows :--

(a) For all overtime up to and including the first two hours of overtime on any day the Overtime Rate shall be one-and-a-quarter times the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e., Time-and-a-quarter.

(b) For all overtime after the first two hours of overtime on any day 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 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 the higher Overtime Rate is payable under the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Section.

PART IV.

HOLIDAYS AND HOLIDAY REMUNERATION.

Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates and who qualify for annual leave under Section 10 of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1939 , shall in addition to the seven consecutive whole holidays prescribed therein, be granted a further period of seven consecutive whole holidays and the payment in respect of this further period shall be calculated in the same manner as that for the statutory period provided by that Act.

PART V.

WORKERS IN RELATION TO WHOM THE COMMITTEE OPERATES.

The above Statutory Minimum Remuneration shall apply, subject to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , and of this Order, to all Workers in respect of all times during which they are employed in any Branch of the Button-making Trade as specified in the Trade Boards (Button-making) Order, 1919, as amended by the Button-making Joint Labour Committee (Amendment) Establishment Order, 1947, that is to say :--

The manufacture of buttons, button moulds, upholsterers' buttons, or upholsterers button-headed nails (excluding the shanks), from any material by the process of cutting, sawing, stamping, pressing, turning, drilling, moulding and injection moulding, fancying, grinding, barrelling, polishing, japanning, lacquering, dyeing, colouring, painting, varnishing, sewing, crocheting, or the covering of button moulds.

Including--

(a) The manufacture of studs, links or parts thereof from any material other than metal, where such manufacture is carried on in association with or in conjunction with button-making so as to provide a common or interchangeable form of employment for workers ;

(b) The manufacture of shanks for buttons where carried on in association with or in conjunction with button-making;

(c) The carding of any of the above articles wherever carried on ;

(d) All despatching, packing, warehousing or other operations incidental to or appertaining to the manufacture of any of the above articles ;

But Excluding--

(e) The manufacture of wooden button moulds ;

(f) The covering of button moulds where carried on in association with or in conjunction with the making of wearing apparel.

PART VI.

GENERAL.

In the case of workers employed on Piece-work, each piece-rate paid must be such as will yield in the circumstances of the case to an ordinary worker not less than the appropriate Piece-work Basis Time-Rate. In determining whether any Piece Rate is sufficient to satisfy this condition, regard must be had only to the earnings of ordinary workers, that is to say, workers of ordinary skill and experience in the class of work in question and not to the earnings of infirm workers, or workers of greater or less than ordinary skill and experience.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 28th day of January, 1958.

(Signed) E. DE BURCA.

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 statutory minimum rates of remuneration and confirms statutory conditions of employment of workers in the Button Making Trade. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Button Making Joint Labour Committee.