S.I. No. 342/1985:

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (LAW CLERKS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1985.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (LAW CLERKS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1985.

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 dated 30th November, 1984 ( S.I. No. 312 of 1984 ) (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 Law Clerks 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 (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee), 1985.

(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 4th November, 1985 and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

Note: Enquiries should be addressed to the Joint Labour Committees Section, The Labour Court, Tom Johnson House, Haddington Road, Dublin 4. (Phone 608444, Extension Nos. 301, 303 and 304).

SCHEDULE

PART I

STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION

For workers employed in all areas

N.B. It should be noted that the scales as specified in the Order apply, having regard to previous employment experience in a Solicitor's Office and whether or not there has been a break in service due to domestic situations or otherwise.

SECTION VI -- OVERTIME RATES

The minimum hourly rates for all hours of overtime shall be as follows:--

One-and-a-half times the hourly rates as defined in Section II, Part II below i.e., time-and-a-half.

PART II

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The following conditions of employment shall apply to all workers referred to in Part I above.

SECTION I -- NORMAL WORKING WEEK

The normal working week shall not exceed 38 hours. Where the normal working hours prescribed by an employer are 38 or less in any one week of not less than five working days, a worker who works the normal working hours so prescribed shall be entitled to the apropriate weekly wage set out in Part I.

The normal number of hours to be worked by workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be as follows:--

For workers over 16 years and under 18 years the maximum number of hours which may be worked shall be governed by the provisions of the Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1977 .

SECTION II -- THE HOURLY RATE

For full-time workers or for part-time workers the hourly rate shall be the appropriate weekly wage divided by the appropriate normal number of hours worked per week.

SECTION III -- MEAL INTERVALS

Meal intervals shall not be reckoned as time worked.

SECTION IV -- OVERTIME

All hours worked in excess of the normal hours in any week shall be overtime and shall be paid for at the overtime rates as outlined in Section VI of Part I of this Order.

SECTION V -- SUNDAY AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

All hours worked on a Sunday or on a statutory Public Holiday shall be paid for at twice the hours rate as defined in Section II above, i.e. at Double Time.

SECTION VI -- ANNUAL HOLIDAYS

Holidays shall be in accordance with the Holidays (Employees) act, 1973 . Those workers who do not have 20 days paid leave shall be entitled to a total of 20 days paid leave.

PART III

WORKERS IN RELATION TO WHOM THE COMMITTEE OPERATES

Clerical workers and messengers, whether whole time or part-time employed by Solicitors in connection with their professional work and by Bodies Corporate in their law departments under the direction of their law agents including managing clerks, general law clerks, cost clerks, typists, stenographers, and book-keepers, but excluding Solicitors' Apprentices and Solicitors.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 23rd day of

October, 1985.

(Signed) JOHN M. HORGAN.

Chairman.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from the 4th November, 1985 for certain workers employed in Solicitors' Offices. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee.