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Statutory Text (1 Articles)
S.I. No. 54 of 1962.
EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (LAW CLERKS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEES), 1962.
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 16th March, 1960 (hereinafter called " the said Order ") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the 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 the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for fixing minimum rates of remuneration and regulating the 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 Employment Regulation Order (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee), 1962.
(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 9th day of April, 1962, and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.
SCHEDULE
PART I.
SECTION I.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR MANAGING CLERKS.
A Managing Clerk is a legal assistant (not being a Solicitor) of not less than 10 years' experience who is fully experienced in all the branches of a Solicitor's work conducted in the Office in which he is employed and who is able to, and habitually does, conduct legal cases, including the interviewing of clients, in that Office without constant supervision and who is entrusted with the control of a staff of not less than three.
For workers employed in the Co. Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Limerick
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Waterford
For workers employed in all other areas.
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
273
3
267
0
260
10
247
2
SECTION II.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR CONVEYANCING CLERKS.
A Conveyancing Clerk is a person who is wholly or mainly engaged in title work in all its branches, including the preparation of contracts, investigation of title, drawing and completion of conveyances, mortgages and other deeds.
For workers employed in the Co. Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Limerick
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Waterford
For workers employed in all other areas
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
1st year of employment
208
8
203
8
198
8
188
10
2nd year of employment
224
10
218
7
213
6
203
8
3rd year of employment and over
240
11
234
9
229
10
217
4
SECTION III.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR COSTS CLERKS.
A Costs Clerk is a person who is wholly or mainly engaged in the drawing and taxation of his employer's costs, and who is not remunerated on a commission basis by his employer.
For workers employed in the Co. Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Limerick
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Waterford
For workers employed in all other areas.
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
1st year of employment
200
0
195
0
190
0
181
4
2nd year of employment
208
7
203
8
198
7
188
9
3rd year of employment and over
216
1
211
1
206
1
196
3
SECTION IV.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR GENERAL LAW CLERKS (MALE) 17 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER.
A General Law Clerk (Male) is a person, other than a Managing Clerk, a Conveyancing Clerk, a Costs Clerk, a Shorthand Typist or a Typist, but who may be a Court Clerk or a Book-keeper, and who is wholly or mainly engaged on clerical duties.
For workers employed in the Co. Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Limerick
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Waterford
For workers employed in all other areas.
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
1st year of employment
53
6
53
6
53
6
53
6
2nd year of employment
68
4
68
4
68
4
68
4
3rd year of employment
77
0
77
0
77
0
77
0
4th year of employment
85
8
85
8
85
8
85
8
5th year of employment
117
11
117
11
117
11
117
11
6th year of employment
142
9
139
2
136
8
130
5
7th year of employment
159
0
155
3
151
6
144
0
8th year of employment
183
9
178
10
175
2
166
5
9th year of employment and over
200
0
195
0
190
0
181
4
Section V.—Minimum Rates of Remuneration for General Law Clerks (Female) 17 Years of Age and Over.
A General Law Clerk (Female) is a female person, other than a Managing Clerk, a Conveyancing Clerk, a Costs Clerk, a Shorthand Typist, a Typist or a Bookkeeper as defined elsewhere in this Part but who may be a Court Clerk and who is wholly or mainly engaged on and does perform the clerical duties which a General Law Clerk (Male) normally performs.
For workers employed in the Co. Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Limerick
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Waterford
For workers employed in all other areas.
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
1st year of employment
53
6
53
6
53
6
53
6
2nd year of employment
68
4
68
4
68
4
68
4
3rd year of employment
77
0
77
0
77
0
77
0
4th year of employment
85
8
85
8
85
8
85
8
5th year of employment
114
1
114
1
114
1
114
1
6th year of employment
140
0
137
5
134
9
128
3
7th year of employment
156
0
154
2
150
3
142
7
8th year of employment
175
0
171
1
165
11
158
1
9th year of employment
182
10
178
11
175
0
165
11
Section VI.—Minimum Rates of Remuneration for Shorthand-Typists, Typists and Book-keepers (Female)
A Shorthand Typist, a Typist or a Book-keeper (Female) is a female person who is wholly or mainly employed on one or more of the following duties, viz., shorthand, typing, book-keeping, copying, scrivenery, filing, post work or telephone operation.
For workers employed in the Co. Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Limerick
For workers employed in the Co. Borough of Waterford
For workers employed in all other areas.
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
Per Week
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
s.
d.
1st year of employment
53
6
53
6
53
6
53
6
2nd year of employment
68
4
68
4
68
4
68
4
3rd year of employment
77
0
77
0
77
0
77
0
4th year of employment
85
8
85
8
85
8
85
8
5th year of employment
114
1
114
1
114
1
114
1
6th year of employment
123
1
120
6
117
11
116
7
7th year of employment
132
2
129
7
125
8
120
6
8th year of employment and over
141
7
139
3
136
10
130
10
Section VI (a).—Assessment of Service.
A Shorthand Typist, Typist or Book-keeper (Female) who is upgraded to be a General Law Clerk (Female) shall for one year be remunerated on the Section VI scale at the end of which she shall be placed at the next higher salary point in the scale for General Law Clerks (Female).
Section VII.—Overtime Rates.
The minimum hourly rates for overtime shall be as follows :—
(i) For the first two hours of overtime—one-and-a-quarter times the hourly rate as defined in Section II, Part II below i.e., Time-and-a-quarter.
(ii) For all hours of overtime in excess of the first two hours—one-and-a-half times the hourly rate as definied in Section II, Part I 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 week of not less than five working days, a worker who works the normal working hours so prescribed shall be entitled to the appropriate weekly wage set out in Part I.
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 38.
Section III.—Meal Intervals : Meal intervals shall not be reckoned as time worked.
Section IV.—Overtime : All hours worked in excess of 38 in any week shall be overtime and shall be paid for at overtime rates as specified in Section VII, of Part I of this Order.
Section V.—Sundays and Public Holidays : All hours worked on a Sunday or on a statutory Public Holiday shall be paid for at twice the hourly rate as defined in Section II above, i.e. at Double Time.
Section VI.—Annual Holidays : Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates and who qualify for annual leave under the Holidays Act, 1961, shall be granted a period of fourteen consecutive days' holidays including two Sundays. Where a worker ceases to be employed by a particular employer before the end of his employment year and has not been allowed annual leave in respect of the period of that year during which he was so employed, the employer shall pay to him on the cesser of that employment one full day's pay for each month of that period during which he worked not less than 135 hours (120 hours in the case of workers under 18 years of age).
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, court clerks, costs clerks, typists, stenographers and book-keepers, but excluding Solicitors' Apprentices and Solicitors.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 29th day of March, 1962.
(Signed) P. D. McCARTHY,
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 minimum rates of pay as from the 9th April, 1962, for certain workers employed in Solicitors' offices. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee.