CINEMAS AND THEATRES WAGES COUNCIL WAGE REGULATION ORDER

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.43

CINEMAS AND THEATRES WAGES COUNCIL

WAGE REGULATION ORDER

8th November, 1976

LEGAL NOTICE 130 of 1976, as amended by Legal Notices 107 of 1977,

128 of 1978, 427 of 2007, 133 of 2010, 362 of 2012, 334, 444 of 2013, 482

of 2014, 5 of 2016, 97 and 383 of 2017, 104 and 351 of 2019, 469 of 2020

464 of 2021, 335 of 2022, 286 of 2023, 341 of 2024 and 288 of 2025.

The title of this Order is Cinemas and Theatres Wages

Council Wage Regulation Order.

1. In this Schedule unless the context otherwise requires

"customary holiday" means the days, other than Sundays,

declared to be public holidays by or under the National Holidays

and other Public Holidays Act;

"part-time employee" means an employee whose normal hours of

work, calculated on a weekly basis or on average over a period of

employment of up to one year, are less than the normal hours of

work of a comparable whole-time employee and who is not a

whole-time employee with reduced hours;

"whole-time employee" means an employee who is deemed to be

a whole-time employee in terms of any recognized conditions of

employment;

"assistant projectionist" means a person over nineteen years of

age who is employed to assist a projectionist;

"cashier" means an employee engaged wholly or mainly in

receiving cash and bookings for admission into a cinema or theatre;

"staff manager" means an employee who is responsible to the

employer for the control of the staff;

"half-day" means a period of twelve hours ending or beginning at

1.00 p.m.;

"hours of work" means the time on any day during which

employees are at the disposal of the employer, exclusive of any

intervals allowed for meals and rest;

"learner" means a person, other than an apprentice, who is over

the age of sixteen years and under the age of nineteen years and

who is receiving training in the calling of projectionist and in

respect of whom the employer holds a permit issued in terms of the

Employment and Training Services Act;

"period of employment" means the time in any day during which

employees are at the disposal of the employer, inclusuve of the

intervals allowed for meals and rest;

"projectionist" means a person in possession of a licence to act as

such;

"time-and-a-half" means one and a half times the minimum

hourly rate applicable to the employee;

"wages" means remuneration or earnings payable in money by an

employer to an employee;

"whole-day'' means a period of twenty-four consecutive hours.

2. The minimum weekly remuneration shall be related to a

week of not more than forty-six hours of work. Where a system of

two or more shifts is in force the rates specified in paragraph 3

shall relate to an average of not more than forty-six hours over two

or more weeks according to the number of shifts in force.

The wage regulation proposals set out in the Schedule shall

apply to all employees in respect of whom the Cinemas and

Theatres Wages Council operates.

The weekly minimum remuneration payable to whole-time

employees shall be that shown hereunder

Projectionist .............................................. €234.10

Assistant Projectionist............................... €231.77

Staff Manager ........................................... €234.10

Barman ..................................................... €231.77

Cashier ..................................................... €231.77

Usher/Usherette ........................................ €231.77

Controller ................................................. €231.77

Learners -

at age 16 years ......................................... €219.82

at age 17 years .......................................... €222.66

at age 18 years or over ............................. €229.44

Other employees .......................................... €229.44.

Whole-time employees shall be allowed a minimum daily

period for meals and rest as follows

(a) where the period of employment includes the whole

day, an aggregate of one hour;

(b) where the period of employment is in the afternoon

only, an aggregate of half-an-hour.

Whole-time employees shall be allowed in every calendar

week a rest of one whole day, or two half days.

Overtime shall be payable to whole-time employees as

follows

For all time worked in excess of forty-six hours in a week - time-

and-a-half

Provided that, where a system of shifts is in force, overtime

shall be payable for all time worked over an average of forty-six

hours calculated in a full cycle.

Whole-time employees shall be entitled, in every calendar

year, to -

(a) all customary holidays with full pay, and

(b) after three months in employment, vacation leave of

such number of working days with full pay as is

equivalent to the number of working days as that

particular employee should normally attend to working

during a period of four weeks

Provided that whole-time employees who have been in

employment for less than one year shall be entitled to such part of

the said vacation leave as is in proportion to the number of months

in employment.

(1) After the completion of one year’s continuous service,

a whole-time employee shall in every calendar year be entitled to

the equivalent in hours of twelve days sick leave on full pay, less an

amount equal to the sum set for sickness benefit entitlement at the

rate established under the Social Security Act, and part-time

employees shall have a pro rata entitlement to sick leave in hours

on full pay, less an amount equal to the sum set for sickness benefit

entitlement at the rate established under the Social Security Act,

which amount is also to be calculated on a pro rata basis

Provided that -

(a) the first three days of any claim for sick leave shall be

paid in full by the employer;

(b) a medical certificate covering the period of absence is

produced to the employer on the day of return to work

or, if such period of absence is longer than seven days,

within seven days of the onset of sick leave absence;

(c) employees in receipt of a social security pension in

respect of retirement or widowhood in terms of the

Social Security Act shall, for the purpose of

calculating the sick leave pay due, be deemed to have

received an amount equal to the sum set for sickness

benefit entitlement at the rate established under the

Social Security Act.

(2) The employer may require a medical certificate by his own

physician to certify incapacity for work during the period of

absence.

(3) The sick leave entitlement granted by virtue of this

paragraph shall be calculated on the basis provided for annual leave

as specified in regulation 8(1) of the Organisation of Working Time

Regulations.

The minimum remuneration payable to part-time

employees of the categories specified in paragraph 3 of this

Schedule shall be a rate per hour arrived at by dividing by forty-six

the amount appearing for the relative category.

Whole-time employees shall be allowed two days leave

with pay on the occasion of the death of any of the following

relations: the wife, husband, mother, father (or the person who at

the time was in fact acting as the mother or father of the employee),

the son, daughter, brother or sister.

A whole-time employee shall be entitled to a maximum of

one year injury leave on full pay, less the full amount of any injury

benefit to which such employee may be entitled in terms of the

Social Security Act, if he is injured during the actual discharge of

his duty, and such injury is not due to any contributory negligence

on his part or to the contravention by him of any safety rules laid

down by the management.

(1) A whole-time employee shall be allowed three days

leave on full pay on the occasion of his marriage.

(2)

A whole-time employee shall be allowed one day leave on

full pay on the occasion of the birth of a child to his wife.

(3) A whole-time employee called for jury service shall be

allowed all necessary time off on full pay to enable him to attend in

Court.

In cases where the retiring age of a male employee is

expected at the age of sixty years, such employee shall be given the

opportunity by his employer to retain his employment beyond this

age at least until the age of sixty-one years, provided that the

employee in question shall still be allowed, if he so wishes, to retire

at the age of sixty years.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This note is not part of the order but is intended to indicate its

applicability.

The provisions in the above Schedule apply to all employees in

cinemas and theatres, other than stage performers and musicians.

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