National Standard Order, 2020

L.N. 468 of 2020

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Wage Increase (Employees)

National Standard Order, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 4 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister within the

Office of the Prime Minister, 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, 2020.

This order shall come into force on the 1 st January 2021.

(2)

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

increased by one euro and seventy-five cents (€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 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 (1/40) of the rate of increases specified in sub-article (1).

€0.09