WAGE INCREASE (EMPLOYEES) NATIONAL STANDARD ORDER

WAGE INCREASE (EMPLOYEES) NATIONAL STANDARD

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.118

WAGE INCREASE (EMPLOYEES)

NATIONAL STANDARD ORDER

1 st January, 2019

LEGAL NOTICE 443 of 2018.

The title of this Order is the Wage Increase (Employees)

National Standard Order.

(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).