WEEKLY ALLOWANCE NATIONAL STANDARD ORDER

WEEKLY ALLOWANCE NATIONAL STANDARD

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.62

WEEKLY ALLOWANCE

NATIONAL STANDARD ORDER

1st January, 1989

LEGAL NOTICE 112 of 1988, as amended by Legal Notices 211 of 1990,

181 of 1993, 273 of 1998, 55 of 1999 and 427 of 2007.

The title of this Order is Weekly Allowance National

Standard Order.

In this Order the term "whole-time employee" shall have

the same meaning as is assigned to it by the Employment and

Industrial Relations Act, and "whole-time employment" shall be

construed accordingly.

(1) Every employer shall pay, or cause to be paid, to each

of his whole-time employees on the last working day in March and

on the last working day in September of each year, a weekly

allowance consisting of a sum calculated at the rate per week as is

established in paragraph 4 of this Order or a proportionate sum for

any part of a week during which such employee was in his whole-

time employment during the six months immediately preceding the

date of the payment.

(2) Where an employee is on the last working day of March or

September, as the case may be, no longer in the whole-time

employment of an employer, such employee shall notwithstanding

be entitled to receive the weekly allowance for the period in the

previous six months during which he was so employed.

(3) With respect to the payment to be effected on the last

working day of March, 1989 consideration is to be taken of any

whole-time employment on or after the first day of January 1989,

and no consideration is to be taken, for the determination of the

wee kly allowanc e p ayable o n t h a t d a t e , o f a ny w h o l e - t i m e

employment before the first day of January 1989.

With effect from the first day of January 1994, the

allowance payable in terms of paragraph 3 of this Order shall be

four euro and sixty-six cents (4.66) per week

Provided that with respect to the payment to be effected on

the last working day of March 1994, the weekly rate shall be four

euro and sixty-six cents (4.66) in respect of any whole-time

employment on or after the first day of January 1994 and of three

euro and forty-nine cents (3.49) with respect to whole-time

employment after the last working day of September 1993 but prior

to the first day of January 1994.

WEEKLY ALLOWANCE NATIONAL STANDARD

On the last working day of March 1999, whole-time

employees shall be paid by their employer once only a sum of thirty

euro and twenty-eight cents (30.28)

Provided that when an employee has not been in whole-

time employment with the same employer for the entire three-

month period between the 1st January, 1999 and the last working

day of March, 1999, such employee shall be entitled to receive

from his employer a sum equivalent to two euro and thirty-three

cents (2.33) for every week, or a proportionate sum for any part of

a week, of whole-time employment with such employer during the

aforementioned period.