Employment Regulation Order (Hotels Joint Labour Committee) 1976

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 133/1976
• Year: 1976

S.I. No. 133 of 1976.

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (HOTELS JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1976.

WHEREAS the Labour Court (hereinafter called "the Court") pursuant to the provisions of Section 43 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , (hereinafter called "the Act") made an Employment Regulation Order dated 26th February, 1975 ( S.I. No. 38 of 1975 ) (hereinafter called "the said Order") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Hotels Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called "the Committee") operates;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted to the Court a proposal for amending the said Order;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has also submitted to the Court the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Committee operates;

AND WHEREAS the provisions of Section 43 of the Act have been complied with;

NOW THEREFORE, the Court, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 43 of the Act hereby orders as follows:—

(1) This Order may be cited as Employment Regulation Order (Hotels Joint Labour Committee), 1976.

(2) Effect is hereby given to the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto.

(3) The provisions set out in the Schedule hereto shall have effect as from the 28th June 1976 and as from that date the said Order shall be amended.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Workers to whom this Schedule applies

1. Workers employed in a hotel undertaking anywhere throughout the State except the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire by the person carrying on that undertaking and who are engaged in any of the following work, that is to say:—

( a ) the preparation of food or drink;

( b ) the service of food or drink;

( c ) the provision of living accommodation;

( d ) the retail sale of goods;

( e ) work incidental to (a), (b), (c) or (d);

( f ) work performed at any office or at any store or warehouse or similar place;

BUT EXCLUDING

(i) Managers, assistant managers and trainee managers, receptionists, head clerks, head storemen and housekeepers.

(ii) Workers affected by a Registered Employment Agreement.

2. In this Schedule "hotel" means either:—

( a ) a premises registered in the register of hotels under the provisions of the Tourist Traffic Acts, 1939 to 1957,

or

( b ) a premises licensed under the Licensing Acts 1833 to 1962 and having not less than 10 apartments normally available for the sleeping accommodation of travellers.

PART III.

Statutory Conditions of Employment

SECTION I—Normal Working Hours

1. The normal working fortnight shall be any 10 days.

2. The 96 hour fortnight (season) and 92 hour fortnight (off season) for workers over 16 years of age shall be reduced to an 80 hour fortnight phased-in as follows:—

96 hour fortnight

2 hour reduction per week from date of Order

3 hour reduction per week from 1st December 1976

3 hour reduction per week from 1st November 1977

92 hour fortnight

2 hour reduction per week from date of Order

2 hour reduction per week from 1st...