S.I. No. 115/2018 - Statistics (Labour Costs Survey) Order 2018

1. Information regarding the following, as it relates to the undertaking concerned and specifying the quarter to which the information relates

(

a

) number of persons, separately identifying totals in respect of full-time employees, part-time employees and apprentices and trainees, who were

(i) employed on the first day of the quarter;

(ii) employed on the last day of the quarter;

(iii) hired during the quarter;

(

b

) number of job vacancies on the last working day of the quarter;

(

c

) total cost of wages and salaries and other forms of compensation and benefits incurred during the quarter, broken down into regular, irregular and overtime payments and separately identifying totals in respect of full-time employees, part-time employees and apprentices and trainees;

(

d

) total of the following, separately identifying totals in respect of full-time employees, part-time employees and apprentices and trainees

(i) paid hours (both contracted and overtime) during the quarter;

(ii) paid hours not worked, broken down into annual leave and bank holidays, maternity leave, sick leave and other leave;

(

e

) cost of pension contributions made during the quarter on behalf of employees;

(

f

) total cost of social security contributions incurred during the quarter (broken down into Employer PRSI, Income Continuance Insurance, redundancy payments and other employee-related payments) in respect of full-time and part-time employees and apprentices and trainees;

(

g

) total cost of other forms of compensation and benefits (broken down into the private use of company cars, stock options and share purchase schemes, voluntary sickness insurance, staff housing and other free or subsidised benefits) which, during the quarter, were paid or given to, or for the benefit of, full-time and part-time employees;

(

h

) training costs (excluding apprentice and trainees wages and salaries) incurred during the quarter;

(

i

) other costs and expenses incurred during the quarter by reason of the employment or use of labour;

(

j

) total amount received during the quarter of subsidies towards, or refunds of, the cost of direct remuneration paid to employees, including apprentices and trainees;

(

k

) number of employees who, at the end of the quarter, were paid at an hourly rate of pay equal to the national minimum hourly rate of pay.

2. Information referred to in paragraph 1, classified by the following occupational categories

(

a

) Managers, Professionals and Associate Professionals, which category includes

(i) chief executive officers and managers of enterprises;

(ii) public representatives and senior public officials;

(iii) professionals, associate professionals and technicians;

(

b

) Clerical, Sales and Service Workers, which category includes

(i) customer services and office clerks;

(ii) personal services and sales workers;

(iii) personal care and protective service workers;

(

c

) Production, Plant and Transport Workers, Craft and Tradespersons and other Manual Workers, which category includes

(i) production workers, plant and machine operators and assemblers;

(ii) skilled craft and related trade workers;

(iii) labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport;

(iv) cleaners and food preparation assistants;

(v) other manual workers.

3. Information on the time taken by the undertaking concerned to complete the questionnaire, form or other record prepared by the Director General for the collection of the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

10 April 2018.

LEO VARADKAR,

Taoiseach.

1 OJ No. L63, 12.3.1999, p.6

2 OJ No. L203, 3.8.1999, p.28

3 OJ No. L229, 9.9.2000, p.3

4 OJ No. L69, 13.3.2003, p.1

5 OJ No. L169, 8.7.2003, p. 37

6 OJ No. L284, 31/10/2003, p.1

7 OJ No. L279, 22.10.2005, p.11

8 OJ No. L279, 22.10.2005, p.32

9 OJ No. L121, 6.5.2006, p.30

10 OJ No. L.393, 30.12.2006, p.1

11 OJ No. L64, 2.3.2007, p.23

12 OJ No. L216, 21.8.2007, p.10

13 OJ No. L145, 4.6.2008, p. 234

14 OJ No. L285, 29.10.2008, p.3

15 OJ No. L9, 14.1.2009, p.3

16 OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14

17 OJ No. L283, 30.10.2009, p.3

18 OJ No. L99, 9.4.2013, p.1

4. A requirement on undertakings to which this Order applies to provide, quarterly and in relation to the immediately preceding quarter, in the period commencing on the date on which this Order comes into operation and ending on 31 March 2023, information the general nature of which is specified in the Schedule is prescribed for the purposes of

section 25

of the

Statistics Act 1993

(No. 21 of 1993).

SCHEDULE

Article 4.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

13

th April

, 2018.

I, LEO VARADKAR, Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 25

(1) of the

Statistics Act 1993

(No. 21 of 1993) and, other than in relation to paragraphs 1(

k

) and 2 of the Schedule to the following order, for the purpose of giving full effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 530/1999 of 9 March 1999

1

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1726/1999 of 27 July 1999

2

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1916/2000 of 8 September 2000

3

, Regulation (EC) No. 450/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003

4

, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1216/2003 of 7 July 2003

5

, Regulation (EC) No. 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 September 2003

6

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1737/2005 of 21 October 2005

7

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1738/2005 of 21 October 2005

8

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 698/2006 of 5 May 2006

9

, Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006

10

, Commission Regulation (EC) No 224/2007 of 1 March 2007

11

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 973/2007 of 20 August 2007

12

, Regulation (EC) No. 453/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008

13

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1062/2008 of 28 October 2008

14

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 19/2009 of 13 January 2009

15

, Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009

16

, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1022/2009 of 29 October 2009

17

and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 317/2013 of 8 April 2013

18

, hereby order as follows