National Minimum Wage National Standard Order, 2017

L.N. 368 of 2017

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

National Minimum Wage 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 National Minimum Wage

commencement.

National Standard Order, 2017 and this order shall come into effect on

the 1 st January, 2018.

The national standard minimum wage per week related to a

normal working week shall be as follows

(a)

age 18 years and over ……………………€ 172.51;

(b)

age 17 years ……………………….…….…€ 165.73;

(c)

under 17 years …………………….………..€ 162.89.

The national minimum wage of part-time employees shall

be calculated pro rata at the same hourly rate of a comparable whole-

time employee as applicable in accordance with the minimum wage of

the relevant wage regulation order, or in cases where a wage regulation

order is not applicable, at an hourly rate not below the national

standard minimum wage applicable, as determined in accordance with

the preceding article and divided by forty.

Where any wages council wage regulation order applies to

any employee, the wages payable to such employee in respect of 2018

shall not be less than those laid down by such Wages Council Wage

Regulation Order, applicable for 2017 adjusted for cost of living by

any increases of wages declared to be generally applicable to all

whole-time employees in terms of article 8 of the Employment and

Industrial Relations Act, or by any wage increases for cost of living

laid down by any national standard order applicable in respect of 2018.

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