Employment Regulation Order No. 2 (Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee), 1978.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: This Order may be cited as the Employment Regulation Order No. 2 (Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee), 1978.
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paragraphs: Effect is hereby given to the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto.
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paragraphs: The provisions set out in the Schedule hereto, shall have effect as from the 25th day of September, 1978, and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked.
STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION.
From Date of Order
Zone A
Zone B
Per Week
Per Hour
Per Week
Per Hour
AGE
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£
£
£
19 years and over
18 years and under 19
17 years and under 18
16 years and under 17
15 years and under 16
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Zone A
Zone B
AGE
Per Month
£
Per Month
£
19 years and over
18 years and under 19
17 years and under 18
16 years and under 17
15 years and under 16
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From 5th March, 1979
Zone A
Zone B
AGE
Per Week
£
Per Hour
£
Per Week
£
Per Hour
£
19 years and over
18 years and under 19
17 years and under 18
16 years and under 17
15 years and under 16
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Zone A
Zone B
AGE
Per Month
£
Per Month
£
19 years and over
18 years and under 19
17 years and under 18
16 years and under 17
15 years and under 16
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PART II.
NORMAL WORKING HOURS.
SECTION 1—The normal number of hours of work for workers for whom the statutory minimum rate of wages is either a rate per week or a rate per hour shall be 42½ hours per week. From 5th March, 1979 the normal number of hours of work shall be 40 hours over a 5½ day week.
PROVIDED THAT
(i) All time worked on Sunday and on Public Holidays or substituted Church Holidays and all time worked after one p.m. on the Short Day shall be regarded as Overtime to which the appropriate overtime rates as set out in Section 3 hereof shall apply.
(ii) The overtime rates shall be payable in respect of all time worked in any week (Monday to Saturday inclusive) in excess of the declared normal number of hours for that week.
SECTION 2—The monthly rates shall cover all time worked in the month exclusive of time worked after one p.m. on the Short Day, time worked on Sunday and time worked on Public Holidays or substituted Church Holidays.
For workers for whom the statutory minimum rate of wages is a rate per month all time worked after one p.m. on the Short Day and all time worked on Sunday and on Public Holidays or substituted Church Holidays shall be regarded as Overtime to which the appropriate overtime rates as set out in Section 3 hereof shall apply.
SECTION 3—The minimum rates for overtime to apply in respect of time worked in excess of the normal number of hours of work shall be as follows:
(i) For all time worked on any day other than Sunday in excess of the normal number of hours of work and for all time worked after one p.m. on the Short Day the overtime rate shall be one-and-a-third times the minimum time-rate otherwise applicable i.e. time-and-one-third.
(ii) For all time worked on Public Holidays or substituted Church Holidays the overtime rate shall be one-and-a-third times the minimum time-rate otherwise applicable i.e. time-and-one-third.
(iii) For all time worked in any week (Monday to Saturday inclusive) in excess of the declared normal number of hours for the week the overtime rate shall be one-and-a-third times the minimum time-rate otherwise applicable i.e. time-and-one-third.
(iv) For all time worked on Sunday the overtime rate shall be one-and-two third times the minimum time-rate otherwise applicable i.e. time-and-two-thirds.
(v) For workers for whom the statutory minimum rate of wages is a rate per month the overtime rate shall be calculated on the basis of a rate equivalent to the minimum time-rate applicable to a worker of corresponding age in the same Zone for whom the statutory minimum rate is either a rate per week or a rate per hour and in respect of time worked other than on Sunday shall be time-and-two-thirds.
SECTION 4—Unless otherwise agreed or in the absence of agreement or in the absence of a statement under the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act, 1973 , Saturday shall be the Short Day.
PART III.
BENEFITS OR ADVANTAGES
(1) Where any agricultural employer provides any agricultural worker in his employment with all or any of the benefits or advantages specified at (2) below, such benefits or advantages shall, for the purpose of computing the remuneration paid to such agricultural worker, be reckoned as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash and the value at which any such benefit or advantage so provided is to be so reckoned shall be as defined at (2) below.
(2) Benefits or advantages and value at which they are to be reckoned as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash.
Benefits or Advantages
Value
Workers aged 19 years and over
Workers aged 18 years and under 19
Workers aged 17 years and under 18
Workers aged 16 years and under 17
Workers aged 15 years and under 16
Date of Order
5/3/79
Date of Order
5/3/79
Date of Order
5/3/79
Date of Order
5/3/79
Date of Order
5/3/79
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
(i) Board and Lodging: per day
Board per day
Breakfast per day
Dinner per day
Afternoon tea per day
Supper per day
Lodging: per day
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(ii) House or Cottage without garden or with a garden not exceeding one statute road: per week
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(iii) Fresh Milk: per gallon
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PART IV.
HOLIDAYS.
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paragraphs: General
Annual leave shall be granted in accordance with Holidays (Agricultural Workers) Regulations, 1977 ( S.I. No. 64 of 1977 ) subject to the following amendments, which will be effective from 1st November, 1977.
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paragraphs: Definitions
"Wet-time" means all absences from work due to inclement weather where the employee is not paid full wages.
"Leave year" means a year beginning on the first day of January.
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paragraphs: (1) An employee shall be entitled to paid leave (in this Act referred to as annual leave) in respect of a leave year in which he has at least one qualifying month of service.
(2) Annual leave shall be equivalent to three working weeks where there are twelve qualifying months of service and subject to the next subsection, to proportionately less where there are eleven or fewer such months.
(3) Annual leave shall also be equivalent to three working weeks where the employee works for the employer at least 1,400 hours (or 1,300 hours if under 18 years of age) during the leave year unless it is a leave year during which he changes his employment.
(4) A day which, apart from this subsection, would be a day of annual leave shall, if it is a day of illness in respect of which a certificate of a registered medical practitioner is furnished, be taken as not being a day of annual leave.
(5) ( a ) Where there are eight or more qualifying months of service annual leave shall, subject to any registered employment agreement, or agreement with the employee's trade union, include an unbroken period equivalent to two working weeks.
( b ) When ascertaining for the purposes of this subsection, whether a period is equivalent to two working weeks, the fact that a day is a public holiday or a day of illness shall be disregarded.
(6) Where board, lodging or board and lodging is part of remuneration, the employee may, subject to being given double pay, elect not to take annual leave.
(7) ( a ) In this section "qualifying month of service" means any month (January to December) during which the employee has worked for the employer at least 120 hours (or 110 hours if under 18 years of age).
( b ) For the purposes of subsection (3) and of the previous paragraph—
(i) a day of annual leave shall be taken as if the employee worked thereon the hours he would have worked if not on leave, and
(ii) wet time shall be taken to be hours worked up to a maximum, in the case of subsection (3), of 480 hours in the leave year or, in the case of the previous paragraph, 40 hours in the month.
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paragraphs: Short term and part-time workers
( a ) In the case of day to day and part-time employments, the employee must, for entitlement under this section, have worked for the employer for at least 120 hours (or 110 hours if under 18 years of age) during the five weeks ending on the day before the public holiday.
( b ) For the purpose of this section—
(i) time off allowed by Act or Order shall be taken to be time worked;
(ii) wet time shall be taken to be hours worked up to a maximum of 50 hours.
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paragraphs: Cesser Pay
( a ) Where employment on a day to day basis ceases and the employee, annual leave not being due to him, has, during the 30 days ending on the day before cesser of employment, worked for the employer for not less than 120 hours (or 110 hours if under 18 years of age), the employer shall pay compensation to him consisting of an extra day and a quarter's pay.
( b ) Where employment ceases during the five weeks ending on the day before a public holiday and the employee has, during the part of that period before the cesser worked for the employer for at least 120 hours (or 110 hours if under 18 years of age), the employer shall pay compensation to him in respect of the public holiday consisting of an extra day's pay.
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paragraphs: In the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 the following are hereby substituted for sections 6 (1) (b) and 6 (1) (c) respectively.
"( b ) to the agricultural worker and his employer making such arrangements as they think lit for the allowance of holidays and
( c ) to the condition that holidays to be allowed in respect of any year or any period of a year shall be allowed before the end of the year, and, if the employment terminates during the year, the holidays shall be allowed before such termination".
In the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 the following subsection is hereby inserted after section 6 subsection (3)—
"(4) Where it is the custom for an agricultural employer to grant to an agricultural worker a day's leave with full pay to attend sporting or other events held on a day other than a Sunday, a public holiday or a Church holiday, not more than six such days may be regarded as annual holidays for the purposes of this Act".
PART V.
WAGES AREAS.
In this Order—
Zone A means the County Borough of Cork and that part of the Administrative county of Cork comprising the Urban District of Cobh, Fermoy, Kinsale, Mallow, Midleton, Youghal, the District Electoral Divisions of Aghern, Aglish, Ardagh, Ardskeagh, Ballinadee, Ballincollig, Ballinspittle, Ballintemple, Ballyarthur, Ballyclogh, Ballycottin, Ballyfeard, Ballyfoyle, Ballygarvan, Ballygorman, Ballyhooly, Ballymackean, Ballymartle, Ballymodan, Ballymurphy, Ballynaglogh, Ballynamona, Ballynoe, Ballyspillane, Bandon, Bishopstown, Blackrock, Blackpool, Blarney, Brinny, Buttevant, Caherduggan, Caherlag, Cannaway, Carrig (in the Former Rural District of Fermoy), Carrig (in the former Rural District of Mallow), Carrigaline (in the former Rural District of Cork), Carrigaline (in the former Rural District of Kinsale), Carrignavar, Carrigrohane Beg, Carrigtohill, Castlecooke, Castle Hyde, Castlelyons, Castlemartyr, Castletownroche, Churchtown, Clenor, Clonmult, Clonpriest, Cloyne, Cobh Rural, Coole Coolmain, Corbeg, Cullen (in the former Rural District of Kinsale), Curraglass, Dangan, Derryvillane, Doneraile, Douglas, Dripsey, Dromore, Dunderrow, Dungourney, Farahy, Farranbrien, Fermoy Rural, Garryvoe, Glanworth E., Glanworth W., Glenville, Gortnaskehy, Gortroe, Greenfort, Ightermurragh, Imphrick, Inch, Inishannon, Inishkenny, Kilbonane, Kilbrittain, Kilbrogan, Kilcor, Kilcronat, Kilcummer, Kildinan, Kildorrery, Kilgullane, Killathy, Killeagh, (in the former Rural District of Cork), Killeagh (in the former Rural District of Youghal), Kilmacdonagh, Kilmacleine, Kilmonoge, Kilpatrick, Kilphelan, Kilshannig, Kilworth, Kinsale Rural, Kinure, Knockantota, Knockavilly, Knockmourne, Knockraha, Knockroe, Laherne, Lehenagh, Leighmoney, Leitrim, Liscleary, Lisgoold, Magourney, Mallow Rural, Marshalstown, Matehy, Midleton Rural, Milford, Milltown, Mitchelstown, Mogeely, Monanimy, Monkstown Rural, Monkstown Urban, Moviddy, Newtown, Nohaval, Ovens, Rahan, Rathcooney, Rathcormack, Rathluirc, Riverstown, Rostellan, St. Mary's, Shanballymore, Skahanagh, Springford, Streamhill, Templebodan, Templebroody, Templemartin, Templemary, Templemichael, Templemolaga, Templenacarriga, Wallstown, Watergrasshill, Whitechurch, Youghal Rural;
The County Borough of Dublin and the Administrative County of Dublin;
That part of the administrative County of Wicklow comprising the Urban District of Bray.
Zone B means all other areas.
PART VI.
WORKERS TO WHOM THIS ORDER APPLIES.
The minimum remuneration and conditions of employment set out in this Order shall apply, subject to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Acts, 1946 to 1976, to all agricultural workers. All workers who are employed in the mushroom growing industry and whose wages and conditions of employment are governed by a registered Employment Agreement are excluded from the scope of the order. All grooms are included in the scope of the Order except those whose wages and conditions are regulated by a registered employment agreement.
For the purposes of this Order—
AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYER means a person who employs other persons as agricultural workers:
AGRICULTURAL WORKER means a person employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship whose work under the contract is or includes work in agriculture but does not include a person whose work under any such contract is mainly domestic service;
AGRICULTURE includes horticulture, the production of any consumable produce which is grown for sale or for consumption or other use, dairy farming, poultry farming, the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land or orchard or osier land or woodland, or for market gardens, private gardens, nursery grounds or sports grounds, the caring for or the rearing or training of animals and any other incidental activities connected with agriculture.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 20th day of September, 1978.
(Signed) COLM COYNE
A person authorised under Section 18 of the Industrial Relations
Act, 1946, to authenticate the Seal of the Court.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
This Instrument fixes with effect as from 25th September, 1978 statutory minimum rates of remuneration and statutory conditions of employment of agricultural workers as defined by the Industrial Relations Act, 1976 . It has special provision in respect of workers employed in the mushroom growing industry and there is also special provision made in respect of grooms. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee.