S.I. No. 9/1958 - Employment Regulation Order (Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee), 1958.

1. 2d. per dozen extra on Nail and other small brushes.

HOUSEHOLD BRUSHES.

Billiard

3¾d.

Boot Top, shear cut

3d.

" hard shear cut

3¼d.

Can, Fibre, or Bass

3¾d.

" Pure Bahia

4d.

Carriage Washing, drawn double

4¼d.

" " root in hole

6½d.

Churn, Bass

5d.

" long handled, shear cut

4d.

Crevice or Sash, single end, bristle

4¼d.

Crumb

3½d.

Dandy Bass

4¾d.

" whisk

4¼d.

" bassine

3¾d.

" bone

4¼d.

" quill

5d.

Davy lamp

5d.

Deck Scrub

4d.

Dish

3d.

Rate per 100 Knots.

Dish, hard

3½d.

Floor Polishing, up to 10 in. by 5 in.

3¾d.

" " over 10 in. by 5 in.

5d.

Furniture

3½d.

Furniture porcupine

6½d.

Horse fibre or mixed

3¾d.

" bristles

4¼d.

Paper-hanging, drawn with root in hole

6½d.

Pick and Lye, root in hole

3½d.

Plate

3½d.

"Hard

3¾d.

Round Oil

3d.

Saucepan, drawn handled

3¾d.

Scrubs, household, bristle and mixed

3½d.

" household fibre, bass (other than Bahia)

3¾d.

" union

3¾d.

" household, pure Bahia

4d.

Shoe, blacking and polishing

3¼d.

Shoe, hard

3½d.

Stove

3¼d.

" hard

3½d·

" porcupine

3¾d.

Spoke, fibre or mixed

3¾d.

" bristle

4¼d.

" porcupine

5d.

Sink, bristle, oblong pattern

3½d.

Water, fibre or mixed

3¾d.

Water, bristle

4¼d.

W.C. porcupine

5¼d.

EXTRA.

2½d. extra per dozen brushes for each wing, snout or tuft.

BROOMS, SWEEPS, ETC.

Brooms, cocoa

4¾d.

" whisk

5d.

" drawn bass, single wire

6d.

" drawn bass, double wire

6¼d.

" window

3¾d.

" Bassine, monkey, Madagascar,Kitool and union fibre

4¾d.

Banisters, cocoa

4¾d.

" whisk

5d.

" Bass

5¼d.

" Bassine, monkey, bass, Kitool, Madagascar fibre and union fibre

5d.

Brooms, and Banister, double drawn, hair

4¼d.

" " root in hole

5½d.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 15th day of January, 1958.

(Signed) E. de BURCA.

A person authorised under Section 18 ofthe

Industrial Relations Act, 1946

, to authenticate the Seal of the Court.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This instrument fixes new minimum rates of pay as from the 418th January, 1958, for workers employed in the Brush and Broom Trade. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee.

S.I. No. 9 of 1958.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (BRUSH AND BROOM 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 the Employment Regulation Order (Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee), 1952, (hereinafter called " the Principal Order ") fixing the minimum rates of remuneration to be paid generally to and regulating the conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called " the Committee ") operates ;

AND WHEREAS the Court pursuant to the same section of the Act also made the Employment Regulation Order (Brush and Broom Joint Labour Committee), 1956 (hereinafter called " the amending Order ") ;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted to the Court the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for fixing the minimum rates of remuneration to be paid generally to 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 (Brush and Broom 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 18th day of January, 1958, and as from that date the Amending Order shall be revoked and the Principal Order shall be amended by the substitution of Part II of the Schedule hereto for Part VI, Sections I and II, of Schedule I to the Principal Order.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

SECTION I.—In addition to any payments due to him under the Principal Order, a male worker of 21 years of age or over, whether on Time Rates or Piece Rates, shall be paid a wage at the rate of 26s. per week of 48 hours.

SECTION II.—In addition to any payments due to her under the Principal Order, each female worker of 21 years of age or over in the Twigmaking Branch of the Trade and each female worker of 18 years or age or over in the Brush and Broom Branch shall be paid a wage at a rate of 17s. per week of 48 hours.

SECTION III.—Hourly rates paid to Juvenile Workers (other than apprentices) shall be increased by 15 per cent. on the hourly rates applicable and specified in the Principal Order calculated to the nearest farthing.

SECTION IV.—Notwithstanding anything contained in Sections II and III above, the provisions of those Sections shall not apply to female workers paid in accordance with Part V of Schedule I of the Principal Order.

PART II.

GENERAL MINIMUM PIECE-RATES FOR FEMALE WORKERS.

The General Minimum Piece-Rates for Female Workers employed on the operations specified in this Part of this Schedule shall be the rates set out in this Part with an addition of 97½ per cent.

SECTION I.

GENERAL MINIMUM PIECE-RATES FOR MACHINE-DRAWN WORK.

All rates are for Fibre or Bristle drawn through unless otherwise stated.

Rate per 100 Knots

Machine Roller Lags, drawn full

5¼d.

Lags drawn in spirals (revolving) flat card, 4 in. by 2 in.

5¼d.

Comber Brushes or Rollers, in two halves

5¼d.

Thread, Card, Winders, Dressing or Plaiting Machine Brushes or similar Slips

5¼d.

Platt's Bobbins

5¼d.

Asa Lee's Bobbins

5¼d.

Asa Lee's Circular (drawn through side)

5¼d.

Leather Strips

6½d.

Paste Brushes or Short Slips

4½d.

Heald Lags or Starching Lags

5¼d.

Reel Brushes

5¼d.

Colliers' Lamp Brushes

5¼d.

Bar, Cog, Wheel, Twisters or Lease Brushes

5¼d.

Roller and Ring

5¼d.

Wheel Polishing or Tentering

6½d.

EXTRAS.

Root in hole or spit knots

1½d. per 100 knots extra.

Penetrating

1½d. " "

Drawn through side

¾d. " "

Kitool

¾d. " "

Bass (i.e., Piassava, African or Bahia) and H.V. quality Bassine

2½d. " "

1¼d. in the 1s. extra where drawing hand has to cut off.

SECTION II.

GENERAL MINIMUM PIECE-RATES FOR HAND-DRAWING.

TOILET BRUSHES.

Rate per 100 Knots

Cloth Common Roach (fibre middle) including trimming

3½d.

" " ( " ) if machine trimmed

3d.

" Octagon Ends ( " ) including trimming

3½d.

" " ( " ) if machine trimmed

3d.

" Bell (fibre middle) including trimming

3½d.

" " ( " ) if machine trimmed

3d.

" Bell Common Veneered, F. or K. including trimming

3½d.

" " " " if machine trimmed

3d.

" other than above specified, including trimming

3½d.

" " " " if machine trimmed

3d.

Flesh

3½d.

" long handled

3¾d.

" if machine trimmed

3d.

" if machine trimmed, long handles

3½d.

Hair 130, 66 and like pattern

3½d.

" Bristle, mixed with Horn or Bone

3¾d.

" Whalebone, flat cut

4¼d.

" Whalebone, ball cut

4¾d.

" other than above specified

3½d.

All hair brushes ¼d. per 100 knots less if machine trimmed.

Hat, including trimming

3d.

" if machine trimmed

2¾d.

Nail, including trimming

3d.

" if machine trimmed

2¾d.

TREPANNED BRUSHES.

Cloth, including trimming

5¼d.

Hat, including trimming

5d.

Nail, including trimming

5d.

if trimming is not performed the rate in each case is subject to ½d. reduction.

Hair

5¼d.

IVORY BRUSHES.

1.10d. per dozen extra on Hair, Hat and Cloth brushes