Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2017

L.N. 366 of 2017

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2017

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 4 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister for European

Affairs and Equality, 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, 2017, and this Order shall come into effect

on the 1 st January, 2018.

(1)

The wages of whole-time employees shall be

increased by €1.75 per week as cost of living increase and shall also

be increased by €1.00 as a mandatory supplement

Provided that the €1 mandatory supplement shall not be an

additional increase in cases of a collective agreement where the cost

of living allowance is part of the overall agreed wage increase set in

that collective agreement

Provided further that in cases where the overall agreed wage

increase for 2018 in that collective agreement is less than €2.75, a pro

rata increase of the mandatory supplement be added to reach the

aggregate set in this sub-article.

(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 increases

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 increases specified in sub-article (1).

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