S.I. No. 373/1983 - Employment Regulation Order (Hotels Joint Labour Committee), 1983.

1. 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 the declared normal number of hours worked per week.

2. A worker rostered to work night duty, which is not overtime, shall be compensated by the payment of an allowance equivalent to 20% of his basic pay.

Sunday Work

3. (i) Work performed on Sunday shall be paid for at the rate of double time.

(ii) Where a worker is required to work Sunday duty on a day which in normal circumstances he would have been off duty such work shall be paid for at the rate of double time.

Finishing Time

4. (i) Workers shall be entitled each week throughout the year to either one early finishing night at 7.00 p.m. or two at 8.30 p.m.

(ii) All workers under 18 years of age shall not be required to work later than 10.00 p.m. on any night.

Spreadover Duty

5. (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 worker's normal finishing time each night and starting time next morning.

Breaks

6. No workers shall be required to work continuously for more than 4½ hours without a break of at least 15 minutes except where the provisions of the

Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1977

provide otherwise.

Lifting of Excessive Weights

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

Certificate of Service

8. 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 12th day of December, 1983.

(Signed) MICHAEL CORCORAN

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 19th December, 1983 for workers employed in a hotel undertaking anywhere throughout the State except the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Hotels Joint Labour Committee.

S.I. No. 373 of 1983.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (HOTELS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1983.

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 23rd June, 1982 (

S.I. No. 196 of 1982

) (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), 1983.

(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 19th December, 1983 and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

NOTE: Enquiries should be directed to the Joint Labour Committees Section, The Labour Court, Davitt House, Mespil Road, Dublin 4. (Phone 765861 Extension Nos. 169 and 182).

SCHEDULE

Part I

Workers to whom this schedule applies