Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2019

L.N. 350 of 2019

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Wage Increase (Employees) National Standard Order, 2019

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:-

(1) The title of this order is the Wage Increase

commencement.

(Employees) National Standard Order, 2019.

This order shall come into force on the 1 st January, 2020.

(2)

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

increased by €3.49 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 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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