Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2018

L.N. 443 of 2018

L.N. 443 of 2018

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2018

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)

commencement.

National Standard Order, 2018, and this Order shall come into force on

the 1 st January 2019.

(1) The wages of whole-time employees shall be

increased by two euro, thirty-three cents (€2.33) per week as cost of

living increase and shall also be increased by one euro (€1.00) per

week as a mandatory supplement

Provided that the one euro (€ 1) per week as a mandatory

supplement shall not be an additional increase in cases of a collective

agreement where the cost of living increase is deemed to be part of the

overall agreed wage increase set in that collective agreement

Provided further that in cases where the overall agreed cost

of living increase for the year 2019 in that collective agreement is less

than three euro, thirty-three cents (€3.33), 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 Wages Council

Wage Regulation Order, or in the absence of an applicable Wages

Council Wage Regulation Order, by one-fortieth (

) of the rate of

increases specified in sub-article (1).

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