S.I. No. 151/1972:

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (PROVENDER MILLING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1972.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (PROVENDER MILLING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1972.

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 (Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee), 1971, dated 21st September, 1971 ( S.I. No. 265 of 1971 ) (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 Provender Milling 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 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 the Employment Regulation Order (Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee), 1972.

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 July, 1972, and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

SCHEDULE.

STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT.

Section 1.--Workers to whom this Schedule applied.

Workers, other than carters and lorry drivers, employed in the manufacture for sale or on commission (including packing where such packing is carried on in conjunction with such manufacture) of animal feeding stuffs by any process whatsoever including the grinding, cutting or flaking of cereals and the mixing of one substance with another substance but excluding production merely by natural agencies or in the course of ordinary farm husbandry.

" Animal feeding stuff " means any article manufactured for use as food for horses, mules, jennets, asses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats or poultry, but does not include grass meal.

Section 2.--Zones.

In this Schedule--

Zone A means the County Boroughs of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Waterford.

Zone B means all other areas.

Section 3.--Statutory Minimum Remuneration.

Phase II.--Basic wages as at the end of the first phase will be increased by 4% from 1st October, 1972, and for each 1% increase in the Consumer Price Index over 4% in the year covered by the first phase a 15p per week supplement shall be added.

Hourly Rate :

The hourly rate shall be ascertained by dividing the appropriate weekly wage by the appropriate number of hours as set out in Section 4.

Section 4.--Normal Working Hours.

The normal number of hours to be worked by workers other than shift workers shall be as follows :--

The normal number of hours to be worked by shift workers shall be as follows :--

Section 5.--Overtime Rates.

The minimum rates for overtime, which shall be calculated on a daily basis, to apply in respect of hours worked by male and female workers in excess of the normal number of hours of work shall be as follows:--

(a) For all time worked in excess of the normal number of hours of work the overtime rate shall be one-and-a-half times the general minimum time-rate otherwise applicable, i.e. time-and-a-half, except in so far as double time is payable under the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Section.

(b) For all time worked on Sundays or statutory public holidays (or customary public holidays substituted therefor) the overtime rate shall be twice the general minimum time-rate otherwise applicable, i.e. double time.

Section 6.--Shift Work Allowances.

Shift Workers shall be paid at the rate of time plus one-sixth of the basic rate.

These allowances shall not be computable for overtime.

Section 7.--Holidays and Holiday Remuneration.

Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be granted holidays in accordance with the provisions of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961 , except that workers with two years service with the same employer (reckoned from the date on which the worker first took up employment with the Employer) shall be granted 5 additional days' Annual Leave.

Section 8.--Service Pay.

Male and Female Workers who have 5 to 9 years service with the same employer to be granted 25p per week.

Male and Female Workers who have 10 years service or over with the same ployer to be granted 50p per week.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 15th day of June, 1972.

(Signed) D. MAC DIARMADA.

A person authorised under Section 18 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , to authenticate the Seal of the Court.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from 1st July, 1972, for workers employed in the Provender Milling Industry. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Provender Milling Joint Labour Committee.