S.I. No. 176/1973 - Employment Regulation Order (General Waste Material Reclamation Joint Labour Committee) 1973.

1. The collecting, sorting or grading of the following materials:—Rags; waste paper; paper stock; woollen worsted, cotton jute, flax, hemp or other textile waste; textile clippings or cuttings; used bags, sacks or sacking; scrap rubber; scrap iron or other scrap metal; fur cuttings; rabbit skins; bones or fat; used tins; broken glass or earthenware.

2. The collecting, sorting or grading of the following articles when collected, sorted or graded in association with or in conjunction with the collecting, sorting or grading of the waste materials specified above:— Discarded clothing (including head-gear or foot-gear); discarded textile articles; old ropes, used bottles or used jars.

3. The following operations when carried on in association with or in conjunction with the collecting, sorting or grading of any or all of the waste materials specified in (1) above:—

The ripping of worn clothes for rags; the picking of old ropes; the trimming of paper salvage; the washing of used bottles or used jars; the washing of used tins; the breaking of scrap metal; the drying of rabbit skins; the making or repairing of sacks or bags; the willowing. pulling, scouring, carbonising or putting down mixings of textile waste,

4. The operations of receiving, packing, compressing, teagling, craning, despatching or warehousing when carried on in association with or in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned operations; but excluding

(

a

) any of the above-mentioned operations when carried on in the establishments in which the waste materials are produced, or in which they are used as raw materials for further manufacture;

(

b

) the making or repairing of sacks or bags when carried on in a factory or workshop engaged solely or mainly in the making or repairing of sacks or bags;

(

c

) the collecting, sorting, grading or drying of rabbit skins when carried on in an establishment in which such operations are the main or principal business or when carried on in or in association with or in conjunction with any business, establishment, branch or department engaged in the manufacture of hatters' fur;

(

d

) (I) the collecting, sorting or grading of cotton waste when carried on in an establishment in which such operations are the main or principal business;

(II) any of the operations included in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, and 4 above, other than operations specified in paragraph (

d

) (I) above, when carried on in or in association with or in conjunction with any establishment of the kind specified in sub-paragraph (I) above.

PART V

In the case of workers employed on piece-work, each piece-rate must be such as will yield in the circumstances of the case to an ordinary worker, not less than the appropriate statutory minimum remuneration. In determining whether any piece rate satisfies this condition regard must be had only to the earnings of ordinary workers, i.e., workers of ordinary skill and experience in the class of work in question and not to the earnings of workers of less than ordinary skill and experience, e.g., learners and infirm workers.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 28th day of

June, 1973.

(Signed) D. MacDIARMADA.

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 and regulates conditions of employment for workers employed in the General Waste Materials Reclamation Trade, as from 1st July, 1973. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour Committee.

S.I. No. 176 of 1973.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (GENERAL WASTE MATERIAL RECLAMATION JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE) 1973.

AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted to the Court a proposal for revoking the said Order

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 (General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour-Committee), 1973, dated 21st, February, 1972 (

S.I. No. 47 of 1972

) (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 General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called " the Committee ") operates

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:—