S.I. No. 616/2025 - Statistics (Labour Costs Survey) Order 2025

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, apprentices and trainees, who were

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

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

(b) number of persons, separately identifying totals in respect of full-time employees and part-time employees, who were hired during the quarter;

(c) average number of apprentices and trainees employed during the quarter;

(d) 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;

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

(f) 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, apprentices and trainees;

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

(i) paid hours (both contracted and overtime);

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

(h) cost of pension contributions made by the undertaking during the quarter on behalf of employees;

(i) total cost of social security contributions incurred during the quarter in respect of full-time employees, part-time employees, apprentices and trainees;

(j) total cost of other forms of compensation and benefits which, during the quarter, were paid or given to, or for the benefit of, full-time and part-time employees;

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

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

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

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, and

(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, and

(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, and

(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,

16 December, 2025.

MICHEÁL MARTIN,

Taoiseach.

1 OJ No. L 69, 13.3.2003, p. 1

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

3 OJ No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p. 14

4 OJ No. L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 234

5 OJ No. L 203, 3.8.1999, p. 28

6 OJ No. L 279, 22.10.2005, p. 11

7 OJ No. L 216, 21.8.2007, p. 10

8 OJ No. L, 2025/447, 10.3.2025

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

9 OJ No. L 97, 9.4.2008, p. 13

10 OJ No. L 32, 3.2.2012, p. 1

11 OJ No. L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 241

12 OJ No. L 19, 20.1.2023, p. 5

4 OJ No. L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 234

1 OJ No. L 69, 13.3.2003, p. 1

3 OJ No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p. 14

4. (1) This Article applies to an undertaking that is classified for statistical purposes under any section, other than section A, U or V, of NACE Rev. 2.1, as set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1893/2006, and employs fewer than 50 persons.

(2) A requirement on undertakings to which this Article applies to provide for the purposes of the survey, quarterly and in relation to the immediately preceding quarter in the period commencing on 1 April 2026 and ending on 31 March 2027, information the general nature of which is specified in paragraphs 1 and 3 of the Schedule, is hereby prescribed.

SCHEDULE

Articles 3 and 4

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th December,

2025.

I, MICHEÁL MARTIN, 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(d), 2 and 3 of the Schedule to the following order, for the purpose of giving full effect to Regulation (EC) No. 450/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003

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

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

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

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, hereby order as follows