Domestic Service Wages Council Wage Regulation (Amendment)

L.N. 30 of 1980

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (REGULATION) ACT,

(ACT NO. XI OF 1952)

Domestic Service Wages Council Wage Regulation (Amendment)

Order, 1980

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 of the Conditions

of Employment (Regulation) Act, 1952, the Minister of Labour, Welfare

and Culture having received proposals from the Domestic Service Wages

Council concerning the conditions of employment of the employees in

relation to whom the said Wages Council operates, has made the follow­

ing order:--

(l) This order may be cited as the Domestic Service Wages

Council Wage Regulation (Amendment) Order, 1980, and shall be read

and construed as one with the Domestic Service Wages Council Wage

Regulation Order, 1976, hereinafter referred to as "the principal order".

This order shall come into force on the 10th March, 1980.

(2)

For sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph 6 of the Schedule to the

principal order and for the provisos to the said paragraph there shall

be substituted the following

"(d) Workers in Groups l and 3 on those days when they

do not sleep in their employer's house, workers in Groups 2 and 4

on those days when they do not sleep in their employer's house

and workers in Group 5, shall be entitled to supper when their

hours of work in ex cess of eight (8 ) in any day exceed three

Provided that workers in Groups l and 2 shall have f10.69,2

deducted monthly from their minimum remuneration, workers in

Groups 3 and 4 shall have ;[2.4 7,2 deducted weekly from their

minimum remuneration, and workers in Group 5 sha11 have 40c7

deducted daily from their minimum remuneration, as compensation

for meals to which they shall be entitled as aforesaid

Provided that workers in Group 6 sha11 have no deduction

from their minimum remuneration as compensation for meals to

which they may be entit!ed as long as they are not entitled to a

day's pay in which case they shall have 40c7 deducted from their

dai1y minimum remuneration

Provided that workers in Groups l, 2, 3 and 4 shall not be

considered as having availed themselves of their right to meals as

aforesaid during periods of customary holidays, leave and sick leave

entitlement, and the relevant deduction as compensation for meals

sha11 not be made from their minimum remuneration; and

Provided further that should workers not avail themselves of

their right to any meals as aforesaid, they shall not be entit1ed to

any pecuniary compensation in substitution therefor.".

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