Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

L.N. 59 of 2021

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 6 and 48 of

the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister responsible

for employment and industrial relations, after consultation with the

Employment Relations Board, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Organisation of

Working Time (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Organisation of Working

Time Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Regulation 8 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) in the first proviso to sub-regulation (1) thereof, the

words "Provided that in cases where the average weekly working

time," shall be substituted by the words "Provided further that in

cases where the average weekly working time," and immediately

before it there shall be added the following new proviso

"Provided that with effect from

the 1st January 2021, in the case of whole-

time employees, where a national or public

holiday falls on a Saturday, Sunday or weekly

day of rest to which an employee is entitled,

such employee shall be entitled to an

additional day of vacation leave during that

same calendar year in respect of each such

national or public holiday, as specified in

article 6 of the National Holidays and Other

Public Holidays Act."; and

(b) sub-regulations (1A), (1B), (1C), (1D) and (1E)

thereof shall be deleted.

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