S.I. No. 409/1986 - Employment Regulation Order (Handkerchief and Household Piece Goods Joint Labour Committee), 1986.

1. The pension scheme shall be non-contributory for workers.

2. The commencement date means the date from which the Order became effective.

3. The entry date means the commencement date and each subsequent anniversary thereof.

4. Normal pension age shall be on the 65th birthday of the worker.

5. Every full-time, permanent worker who at the commencement date is aged not less than 30 years but less than 55 years; has completed at least five years' continuous employment with the employer by whom he/she is then employed or his predecessor in title and who entered the employment of that employer or his predecessor in title on, or before, his/her 45th birthday shall become, and remain, a member of the pensions scheme provided by his/her employer.

*Documentary evidence of the existence of the scheme (such as for example an insurance policy) should be available for inspection.

6. Every full-time permanent worker other than those described at 5 above who at an entry date other than the commencement date:—

(

a

) is aged not less than 30 years but less than 45 years and

(

b

) has completed at least five years' continuous employment with the employer by whom he/she is then employed or his predecessor in title shall become and remain a member of the pension scheme provided by his/her employer.

7. A member of the pension scheme who has completed at least 30 years' continuous employment immediately prior to normal pension age with the employer by whom he/she is then employed or his predecessor in title will receive on retirement at normal pension age a pension of £4.00 per week. The pension will be payable for five years certain from date of retirement and thereafter for life.

8. A member of the pension scheme who has completed less than thirty years' continuous employment with the employer by whom he/she is then employed or his predecessor in title immediately prior to the normal pension age will receive on retirement at normal pension age a weekly pension calculated as follows:—

13p multiplied by his/her number of years continuous employment.

9. In the event of death in employment before normal pension age of a member of the pension scheme a lump sum of £1,200 shall be paid into his/her Estate.

10. A worker who is aged over 25 years and who has completed at least three years' continuous employment with his/her employer or his predecessor in title and who would otherwise satisfy the eligibility conditions in paragraphs 5 and 6 shall from the entry date following the completion of such conditions become, and remain, a member of the pension scheme provided by his/her employer for the purpose of obtaining the death benefit referred to in paragraph 9.

11. With the consent of his/her employer a member of the pension scheme may retire during the ten years immediately proceeding his/her normal pension age or at any time on the grounds of ill health. In either event he/she will be entitled to receive as from date of retirement a weekly pension calculated as follows:—

13p multiplied by his/her number of years continuous service with the employer.

12. Where a worker ceased or ceases employment with his/her employer and was, or is, subsequently re-employed the employement of such worker will count only from the date of subsequent re-employment.

13. A worker who voluntarily leaves the employment before normal pension age except as provided in paragraph 11 above or who is dismissed for misconduct shall not be entitled to any benefit under the pension scheme.

PART VI

SERVICE PAY

Employees with 5 years' continuous service and over 50p per week

Employees with 10 years' continuous service and over £1.00 per week

Employees with 15 years' continuous service and over £1.50 per week

Employees with 20 years' continuous service and over £2.00 per week

PART VII

ANNUAL HOLIDAYS

Those workers who do not have 20 days Paid Leave shall be entitled to a total of 20 days Paid Leave, in the holiday year 1985 and thereafter. The entitlement to these additional day(s) shall be based on the provisions of the

Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973

.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 11th day of

December, 1986.

(Signed) JOHN M. HORGAN.

Chairman.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes with effect from 1st January, 1987 statutory minimum rates of remuneration and regulates statutory conditions of employment for workers employed in the Handkerchief and Household Piece Goods Trade. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Handkerchief and Household Piece Goods Joint Labour Committee.

S.I. No. 409 of 1986.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (HANDKERCHIEF AND HOUSEHOLD PIECE GOODS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1986.

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 5th November, 1985 (

S.I. No. 357 of 1985

) (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 Handkerchief and Household Piece Goods Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called "the Committee") operates;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has also 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:—