Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2008

L.N. 340 of 2008

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2008

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 4 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister for Social

Policy, on the recommendation of the Employment Relations Board

has made the following order:-

The title of this Order is the Wage Increase (Employees)

National Standard Order, 2008, and it shall come into effect on the

1 st January, 2009.

(1) The wages of whole-time employees shall be

increased by €4.08 per week.

(2) The hourly rate of part-time employees shall be

increased by the same amount as that of a comparable whole-time

employee, calculated after including the weekly increase in sub-

article (1) hereof, or in cases where there is no equivalent whole-

time employee, by one-fortieth of the rate of increase specified in

sub-article (1) hereof.

€0.09