Employment Regulation Order (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee), 1997
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

num: 248
paragraphs: 04
Section II
Conveyancing Clerk/Cost Clerk
1st y ear of employment
num: 206
paragraphs: 46
2nd year of employment
num: 214
paragraphs: 80
3rd year of employment
num: 220
paragraphs: 32
A. Conveyancing Clerk is a person who is wholly or mainly engaged in title work in all its branches, including the preparing of contracts, investigation of title, drawing and completion of conveyances, mortgages and other deeds.
A Cost Clerk is a person who is wholly or mainly engaged in the drawing and taxation of his employer's costs, and who is not remunerated on a commission basis by his/her employer.
Section III
General Law Clerks 17 years of age and over
First six months of employment
num: 128
paragraphs: 04
Second six months of employment
num: 134
paragraphs: 42
2nd year of employment
num: 140
paragraphs: 78
3rd year of employment
num: 147
paragraphs: 14
4th year of employment
num: 154
paragraphs: 00
5th year of employment
num: 164
paragraphs: 99
6th year of employment
num: 171
paragraphs: 93
7th year of employment
num: 179
paragraphs: 09
8th year of employment
num: 189
paragraphs: 83
9th year of employment
num: 198
paragraphs: 16
10th year of employment
num: 206
paragraphs: 46
A General Law Clerk is a person other than a managing clerk, a conveyancing clerk, a cost clerk, a shorthand typist or a typist but who may be a court clerk or a bookkeeper and who is wholly or mainly engaged on clerical or bookkeeping duties.
Section IV
Shorthand Typist/Typist
First six months of employment
num: 128
paragraphs: 04
Second six months of employment
num: 134
paragraphs: 42
2nd year of employment
num: 140
paragraphs: 78
3rd year of employment
num: 147
paragraphs: 14
4th year of employment
num: 153
paragraphs: 53
5th year of employment
num: 160
paragraphs: 41
6th year of employment
num: 167
paragraphs: 30
7th year of employment
num: 174
paragraphs: 30
8th year of employment
num: 181
paragraphs: 59
9th year of employment
num: 189
paragraphs: 83
A Shorthand Typist or Typist is a person who is wholly or mainly employed on one or more of the following duties, viz: shorthand, typing, Dictaphone, reception, copying, scrivenery, filing, post work, despatch and telephone operation.
Where a Shorthand Typist/Typist has been trained and is performing duties appropriate to a law clerk, such person shall be paid the rate appropriate to a law clerk.
Section V
Messenger
1st year of employment
num: 123
paragraphs: 86
2nd year of employment
num: 130
paragraphs: 21
3rd year of employment
num: 136
paragraphs: 55
A Messenger is a person wholly or mainly engaged in post work, collection and delivery.
N.B. It should be noted that the scales as specified in the Order apply, having regard to previous employment experience in a Solicitor's Office and whether or not there has been a break in service due to domestic situations or otherwise.
SECTION VI
OVERTIME RATES
The minimum hourly rates for all hours of overtime shall be as follows:—
One-and-a-half times the hourly rates as defined in Section II, Part II below i.e., time-and-a-half.
PART II CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
The following conditions of employment shall apply to all workers referred to in Part I above.
SECTION I
NORMAL WORKING WEEK
The normal number of hours to be worked by workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be 38 hours per week.
Where the normal working hours prescribed by an employer are 38 or less in any one week of not less than five working days, a worker who works the normal working hours so prescribed shall be entitled to the appropriate weekly wage set out in Part I.
In relation to workers under the age of 18, the provisions of the Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1996 shall apply.
SECTION II
THE HOURLY RATE
For full-time workers or for part-time workers the hourly rate shall be the appropriate weekly wage divided by the appropriate normal number of hours worked per week.
SECTION III
MEAL INTERVALS
Meal intervals shall not be reckoned as time worked.
SECTION IV
OVERTIME
All hours worked in excess of the normal hours in any week shall be overtime and shall be paid for at the overtime rates as outlined in Section VI of Part I of this Order.
SECTION V
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
All hours worked on a Sunday or on a statutory Public Holiday shall be paid for at twice the hourly rate as defined in Section II above, i.e. at Double Time.
SECTION VI
ANNUAL HOLIDAYS
Holidays shall be in accordance with the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 provided however that those workers who do not have 20 days paid leave shall be entitled to a total of 20 days paid leave in the holiday year 1983 and thereafter.
PART III WORKERS IN RELATION TO WHOM THE COMMITTEE OPERATES
Clerical workers and messengers, whether whole time or part-time employed by Solicitors in connection with their professional work and by Bodies Corporate in their law departments under the direction of their law agents including managing clerks, general law clerks, cost clerks, typists, stenographers, and bookkeepers, but excluding Solicitors' Apprentices and Solicitors.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court, this 23rd day of June, 1997.
(Signed) EVELYN OWENS,
Chairman.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
This Instrument fixes statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from 1st July, 1997 for certain workers employed in Solicitors' Offices. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee.