Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2012

L.N. 492 of 2012

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 4 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister for Justice,

Dialogue and the Family, 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, 2012, and this Order shall come into effect

on the 1st January, 2013.

(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 the increase in the hourly rate of a comparable

whole-time employee, calculated after including the weekly increase

in sub-article (1), 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).

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