S.I. No. 147/1990 - Employment Regulation Order (Hotels Joint Labour Committee), 1990.

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.

3.

Sunday Work

(i) Work performed on Sunday which forms part of the 78 hour rostered fortnight shall be paid for at double time. The extra pay which is additional to normal pay will be based on the appropriate rate without Board or Lodging.

(ii) Where an employee works a full day on a Sunday which is in addition to the 78 hour rostered fortnight he/she shall receive two additional days pay based on the rate without Board or Lodging and pro rata for part days.

4.

Finishing Time

(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.

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

6.

Breaks

No worker 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.

7.

Lifting of 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 employed at the date of termination.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 18th day of June 1990.

(Signed) KEVIN HEFFERNAN,

Chairman.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Instrument fixes statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from 1st July, 1990 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.

3. Where a worker has worked on any Public Holidays throughout the year, the days off in lieu may be taken consecutively and added to the worker's annual leave.

SECTION III—OTHER CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Overtime Rates

4. In any hotel where none of the cooking staff is on full rate, one of the cooks shall be paid a rate one year in excess of the highest prevailing rate of any of the cooking staff.

5. In the case of temporary staff employed in seasonal hotels, the season, or that part of the season during which the hotel is open, shall count as a full year for the purpose of calculating the appropriate rate of pay applicable the following season.

PART III

STATUTORY CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

SECTION I—NORMAL WORKING HOURS

S.I. No. 147 of 1990.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (HOTELS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1990.

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 18th August, 1989 (

S.I. No. 214 of 1989

) (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), 1990.

(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 1st July, 1990 and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.

Note: Enquiries should be directed to the Secretary, Joint Labour Committee Section, The Labour Court, Haddington Road, Dublin 4 (Phone 608444. Extension Nos. 301, 303 and 304).

SCHEDULE

PART I

Workers to whom this schedule applies