Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2016

L.N. 417 of 2016

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2016

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 4 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister for Social

Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties, 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, 2016, and this Order shall come into effect

on the 1 st January, 2017.

(1)

The wages of whole-time employees shall be

increased by €1.75 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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