SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 12

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.10

SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEME -

SCHEME NO. 12

11th May, 1954

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 194 of 1954, as amended by Government

Notice 218 of 1957, Act XLIV of 1965, and Legal Notices 32 of 1967, 119

of 1969, 47 and 77 of 1970, 124 of 1976, 61 and 86 of 1977, 51 of 1978, 80

of 1979 and 424 of 2007.

The title of this Scheme is the Shoe Manufacturing

Industry Scheme - Scheme No. 12.

In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires, the

words and expressions used shall have the same meaning as those

assigned to them by the Employment and Training Services Act.

This scheme shall apply to the calling of shoe

manufacturing operative in establishments producing shoes mainly

or wholly by machine, and to the calling of shoe uppers maker and

shoe maker respectively in establishments producing shoes mainly

or wholly by hand methods whether bespoke or otherwise.

No person may be employed as an apprentice under this

scheme unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director that

such person has either completed the fourth year of a Secondary

School or the full Trade School Course.

Employers engaging apprentices under this scheme shall

undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn the

following processes

A.

Shoe Manufacturing Operative.

(1) The apprentices shall spend the first four weeks of the

probationary period in the acquisition of a general

knowledge of the sequence of processes of production

in all the denartments mentioned below.

(2) Thereafter they will be placed in any one of the

following departments to learn the processes

described, namely

(a) Clicking Department

(i)

Characteristics and identification of the

principal types of leather and of fabrics

used for outsides and linings.

(ii) Cutting of outsides and linings using

clicker’s knife or clicking press.

(iii) Safety precautions in workshop.

(b) Bottom Stock and Preparation Department

(i)

Characteristics and identification of the

principal types of bottom leathers and

other bottoming materials used.

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(ii)

Cutting of soles and heels.

(iii)

Rounding and moulding of cut soles;

grooving and channelling of soles; heel

making.

(iv) Safety precautions in workshop.

(c) Making Department

(i)

Pulling of uppers over last; lasting.

(ii) Attaching of soles to uppers; heel

attaching.

(iii) Safety precautions in workshop.

(d) Finishing Department

(i)

Trimming and scouring of soles and heels.

(ii) Edge setting.

(iii) Painting and polishing of bottoms.

(iv) Safety precautions in workshop.

B.

Shoe Uppers Maker

(1) Characteristics and identification of the principal types

of leather and fabrics used for outsides and lining.

(2) Cutting of outsides and lining using the clicker’s knife.

(3) Thinning of edges; cementing and folding of edges;

perforating of uppers; stitching of outsides and linings

and closing of same; flattening of seams; making of

eyelets and button holes and attaching buttons.

(4) Safety precautions in workshop.

C.

Shoemaker

(1) Characteristics and identification of the principa1

types of bottom leathers and other bottoming materials

used.

(2) Cutting of soles, heels and other parts to make up the

shoe.

(3) Preparing bottom stock for attachment; heel making.

(4) Matching of uppers with bottom stock parts; pulling of

uppers over last; lasting; attaching of soles to uppers;

attaching soles.

(5) Trimming and scouring of soles and heels; edge

setting; painting and polishing of bottoms; cleaning of

uppers.

(6) Safety precautions in workshop.

(1) The period of apprenticeship in each of the above

callings shall be of four years

Provided that the said period of four years shall be reduced

by six months, to a total reduction of not more than one year, in

respect of

(i)

each complete year of attendance by the prospective

apprentice following the attainment by him of the

twelfth year of his age, at any shoe making course in

any trade school or institution of a standard approved

by the Minister, such attendance being certified as

satisfactory by the Director of the school or institution

concerned; and

(ii) each year of learnership in any of the above callings,

undergone by the prospective apprentice with the

permission of the Director

Provided that in respect of contracts of

apprenticeship entered into after the first day of

January, 1970 -

(a) for the words "in each of the above callings shall

be four years" there shall be substituted the

words "in the case of Shoe Operative and

Shoemaker shall be of four years and in the case

of Shoe Uppers-Maker shall be of three years";

and

(b) for the words "four years" in the proviso to

subarticle (1), there shall be substituted the

words "four and three years as the case may be".

(2) A person who has completed an apprenticeship in either of

the callings of shoe uppers-maker or shoemaker shall be credited

with two years towards the period of apprenticeship in the other

calling.

The wages payable to apprentices in any of the callings to

which this scheme applies shall be as follows

(a) in the case of shoe operatives and shoemaker

Year

Wages per week

First

€24.57

Second

€30.79

Third

€37.04

Fourth

€43.26;

(b) in the case of shoe uppers maker

Year

Wages per week

First

€33.92

Second

€38.60

Third

€43.26.

(1) The hours of work of apprentices employed under this

scheme shall not exceed nine hours in any one day

Provided that employers may employ apprentices on

overtime work with the approval of the Director, who may impose

such conditions as he may deem fit, at the following rates of

remuneration

(a) for all time worked in excess of nine hours daily: time

and a half;

(b) for all time worked in excess of forty-five hours in any

week, exclusive of any time paid at overtime rates

time and a half;

(c) for all time worked on Sundays and on customary

holidays: double time.

(2) Apprentices under 16 years of age may not be employed

between 11 p.m. of any one day and 6 a.m. of the next following

day.

Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every

calendar week.

Apprentices 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 apprentice should normally attend to work

during a period of four weeks

Provided that -

(a) all apprentices 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, and

(b) vacation leave may not normally be availed of on any

day when the apprentice is required to attend school

for theoretical instruction.

(1) After completing the first six months of

anprenticeship, apprentices shall be entitled to twenty days sick

leave on full pay in every calendar year less any sickness benefit to

which they may be entitled under the Social Security Act

Provided that a medical certificate certifying incapacity for

work covering the period of absence is produced to the employer,

who may require his medical practitioner to examine the

apprentice.

(2) Apprentices shall not be entitled to the payment of any

wages for the first three days of every period of sick leave

Provided that the number of unpaid days of sick leave shall

not be deducted from the entitlement of paid sick leave.

Apprentices shall be allowed two days paid leave on the

death of any of the following: the wife, husband, mother, father (or

the person who at the time was in fact acting as the mother or

father), son, daughter, brother and sister of the apprentice.

In this scheme, "customary holidays" means the days

(other than Sundays) declared for the time being to be public

holidays by or under the National Day and other Public Holidays

Act.

An apprentice shall be entitled to one year injury leave on

full pay, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which an

apprentice 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 contributory negligence on his part or to contravention

by him of safety rules laid down by the management.