S.I. No. 194/1969 - Employment Regulation Order (Hotels Joint Labour Committee), 1969.

1. Overtime Rates

Overtime shall be paid for at the rate of time-and-a-half. Overtime rates shall be calculated by reference to the hourly rate which shall be the appropriate weekly rate " Without Board or Lodging " divided by 48.

2. Sunday Work

Work performed on Sunday shall be paid for at the rate of time-and-a-half. Where a worker is required to work on a Sunday on which in normal circumstances he would have been off duty, such work shall be paid for at the rate of time-and-three-quarters.

3. Day off other than Sunday

Where a worker is required to work on his off-day such work shall be paid for at the rate of double time during the season and time-and-three-quarters during the off-season.

4. Finishing Time

(i) Workers shall be entitled each week throughout the year to either one early finishing night at 7 p.m. or two at 8.30 p.m.

(ii) Permanent workers under 16 years of age shall not be required to work later than 10 p.m. on any night.

(iii) Casual workers under 16 years of age shall not be required to work later than 11 p.m. on any night.

5. Spreadover Duty

(i) The maximum period for spreadover duty shall not exceed 14 hours in any day.

(ii) A minimum period of 8 hours shall elapse between a workers normal finishing time each night and starting time next morning.

6. Breaks

No worker shall be required to work continuously for more than 4 ½ hours without a break of at least 15 minutes.

7. Lifting Excessive Weights

Workers under 18 years of age shall be employed on suitable light work.

8. Certificate of Service

Each worker shall be entitled to receive from his employer on termination of his employment a certificate of service showing the period for which he was employed and the standing of his employment at the date of termination.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 15th day of October, 1969.

(Signed) D. MAC DIARMADA.

A person authorised under

Section 18

of the

Industrial Relations Act, 1946

, to authenticate the Seal of the Court.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This instrument fixes statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from 27th October, 1969 for workers employed in a hotel undertaking anywhere throughout the State except the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork and the Borough of Dun Laoghaire. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Hotels Joint Labour Committee.

S.I. No. 194 of 1969.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (HOTELS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1969.

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 14th December, 1967 (

S.I. No. 284 of 1967

) (hereinafter called " the said Order ") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Hotels 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 Employment Regulation Order (Hotels Joint Labour Committee), 1969.

(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 27th day of October, 1969, and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

SCHEDULE

PART I

Workers to whom this schedule applies.