Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2009

L.N. 377 of 2009

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2009

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, 2009, and it shall come into effect on the

1st January, 2010.

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

increased by € 5.82 per week.

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

increased by the same amount as the increase in the hourly rate of

a comparable whole-time employee, calculated after including the

weekly increase in sub-article (1) hereof, or in cases where there is

no comparable category of whole-time employees at the workplace,

by the hourly rate of a comparable whole-time employee in

an applicable Wage Regulation Order, or in the absence of an

applicable Wage Regulation Order, by one-fortieth of the rate of

increase specified in sub-article (1) hereof.

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