S.I. No. 168/1981:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF WORSTED YARNS) (COMER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1981.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF WORSTED YARNS) (COMER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1981.

I, Tom Nolan, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 29 and 52 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the form of industrial work specified in these Regulations and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Worsted Yarns) (Comer International Limited) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the manufacture of worsted yarns as carried on at the premises of Comer International Limited, Castlecomer, in the County of Kilkenny, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of sections 38 and 49 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

4. The following provisions shall have effect in respect of the work to which these Regulations relate:

( a ) no worker shall be employed to do any such work for more than 16 hours on any day;

( b ) no worker shall be employed to do any such work for more than 32 hours in any week;

( c ) workers may be employed to do such work between the hour of 4 p.m. on Sunday and the hour of 8 a.m. on the following day;

( d ) no worker may be employed to do any such work before the hour of 4 p.m. on a Sunday.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 5th day of May, 1981.

TOM NOLAN,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 provides that adult workers may not be employed for more than nine hours in any day and that adult workers shall not be employed for more than three hours on a Sunday. These Regulations permit, subject to certain conditions, the employment of adult workers on sixteen hour work periods on the manufacture of worsted yarns as carried on at the premises of Comer International Limited, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.