Overtime (Amendment) Regulations, 2015

L.N. 81 of 2015

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Overtime (Amendment) Regulations, 2015

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 48 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister for Consumer

Affairs, Social Dialogue and Civil Liberties has made the following

regulations:–

The title of these regulations is the Overtime (Amendment) Citation.

Regulations, 2015 and they shall be read and construed as one with

the Overtime Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal S.L. 452.110.

regulations".

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations the words Amends

"discretion of the employer." shall be substituted by the words regulation

the principal

"discretion of the employer:" and immediately thereafter there shall regulations.

be added the following new proviso

"Provided that in a sector where there is no applicable

Wages Council Wage Regulation Order, this regulation shall not

affect any provision relating to overtime payment in an

applicable collective agreement covering such a sector, whether

this agreement was entered into prior to, or after, the entry into

force of these regulations.".

Subregulation (5) of regulation 5 of the principal Amends

regulation 5 of

regulations shall be amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

in paragraph (b) thereof, the words "of the weekly

hours to be worked in the following week as long as at least one

week’s written notice is given of such a change;" shall be

substituted by the words "of the number of weekly hours and/or

of the roster to be worked in a particular week as long as written

notice of such a relative change is given at least forty-eight

hours before such a change comes into effect;";

(b)

in paragraph (g) thereof, the words "shall not be

carried forward again; and" shall be substituted by the words

"shall not be carried forward again:" and immediately thereafter

there shall be added the following new proviso

"Provided that if at the end of a calendar year it results that

the employee has worked lesser hours than what he should have

worked in terms of the applicable scheme of banking of hours,

those hours shall be transferred to be worked during the next

calendar year; and".

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