S.I. No. 297/1975:

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (BUTTON-MAKING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1975.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (BUTTON-MAKING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1975.

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 28th June, 1974 ( S.I. No. 205 of 1974 ) hereinafter called "the said Order") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the statutory 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 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 the Employment Regulation Order (Button-Making Joint Labour Committee), 1975.

(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 12th December, 1975 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 Male Workers.

SECTION II-- Piece-Work Basis Time-Rate for all male workers--93.72p per hour from 12th December, 1975; 95.28p from 1/1/76

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--69.56p per hour from 12th December, 1975; 70.95p from 1/1/76.

Rates are based on age for workers employed in the firm prior to 29/6/1970 and based on experience for those who entered the firm's employment on or after 29/6/1970.

Fourth Phase

The Fourth Phase increase--which shall be applied to the basic rate as at the end of the third phase--shall be in accordance with the fourth phase of the National Wage Agreement 1975 as in force on the operative date of the fourth phase.

PART III

Shift Work: In the case of workers employed in accordance with the terms of a shift work licence granted by the Minister for Labour the minimum rates of wages shall be one and one-eighth of the appropriate minimum rates set out in Parts I and II of this Schedule.

PART IV

Normal Working Hours and Overtime Rates

SECTION I-- The normal number of hours per week to be worked by workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be 40 hours.

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 Rates 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 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 time during which they are employed in any Branch of the Button-Making Trade as specified in the Trade Boards (Button-making) Order, 1935, 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 inter-changeable 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 would 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.

PART VII

Annual Holidays

1. A worker in relation to whom the Committee operates and who qualifies for annual leave under the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961 shall be granted three weeks annual leave.

2. One of the three weeks annual leave may be granted at such time as may be agreed between the worker and the employer, the other two weeks to be granted at the normal holiday period of the firm.

PART VIII

Service Pay

( a ) Male workers with 10 years service or over with the same employer to be granted 50p per week.

Female workers with 10 years service or over with the same employer to be granted 35p per week.

( b ) Male Workers with 5 and less than 10 years service with the same employer-- 25p per week.

Female Workers with 5 and less than 10 years service with the same employer-- 17½p per week.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 10th day of December, 1975.

(Signed) D. MacDIARMADA

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 regulates statutory conditions of employment, as from 12th December, 1975, for workers in the Button Making Trade. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Button Making Joint Labour Committee.