Employment Regulation Order (Packing Joint Labour Committee), 1975.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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SECTION II
Per Hour Pence
Date of Order
1/12/75
Piece-Work Basis Time-Rate for all Male Workers
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Male Workers while employed on Piece-Work shall be entitled to receive Piece-Rates each of which would yield, in the circumstance of the case, to an ordinary worker not less than 85.73p per hour from date of Order and 87.23p per hour from 1/12/75. In determining whether any piece-rate is sufficient to satisfy this condition, regard must be had only to the earnings of ordinary workers, that is to say, workers of ordinary skill and experience, in the class of work in question and not to the earnings of workers of less than ordinary skill and experience, e.g. learners and infirm workers.
PART II
General Minimum Time-Rates and Piece-Work Basis Time-Rate for Female Workers
SECTION I
General Minimum Time-Rates
Per Hour Pence
Female Workers who have been in employment for not less than three years after completion of learnership
Date of Order
1/12/75
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Female Workers ( other than those specified above and other than Female Learners)
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General Minimum Time-Rates for Female Learners
Date of Order
1/12/75
During 1st six months period of learnership
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SECTION II
Per Hour Pence
Date of Order
1/12/75
Piece-Work Basis Time-Rate for all Female Workers
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Fourth Phase
The Fourth Phase increase—which shall be applied to the basic rate as at the end of the third phase—shall be in accordance with the fourth phase of the National Wage Agreement 1975 as in force on the operative date of the fourth phase.
Female Workers (including Female learners) while employed on Piece-Work shall be entitled to receive Piece-Rates each of which would yield, in the circumstances of the case, to an ordinary worker not less than 67.66p per hour from date of Order and 69.03p per hour from 1/12/75. In determining whether any piece-rate is sufficient to satisfy this condition regard must be had only to the earnings of ordinary workers, that is to say, workers of ordinary skill and experience in the class of work in question and not to the earnings of workers of less than ordinary skill and experience, e.g. learners and infirm workers.
PART III
Normal Working Hours and Overtime Rates
SECTION I
The normal number of hours to be worked by workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be as follows:—
( a ) For that class of workers who customarily attend on six days a week:—
In any week
40 hours
On any day other than the short day not exceeding
8 hours
On the short day not exceeding
4 hours
( b ) For that class of workers who customarily attend on five days a week:—
In any week
40 hours
On any day, not exceeding
8 hours
PROVIDED THAT
(i) All hours worked on Sunday and Customary Public or Statutory holidays by a worker of either of the classes (a) or (b), above and all hours worked on the weekly holiday by a worker of class (b) shall be regarded as Overtime to which the Overtime Rates shall apply.
(ii) The Overtime Rates specified in Section II of this Part shall be payable in respect of all hours of Overtime worked on any day notwithstanding that the number of hours worked in that week does not exceed the declared normal number of hours of work for the week.
SECTION II
The minimum rates for Overtime to apply in respect of hours worked by a worker, whether employed on Time-Work or on Piece-Work, in excess of the declared normal number of hours indicated in Section I of this Part, shall be as follows:
( a ) That class of workers who customarily attend on Six days a week:—
(1) On any day other than the short day, Sunday and Customary Public or Statutory Holidays:—
(i) For the first two hours of Overtime, One-and-a-half times the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Time-and-a-half.
(ii) For the second two hours of Overtime, One-and-a-half times the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Time-and-a-half.
(iii) For Overtime after the first four hours of Overtime, Twice the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Double Time.
(2) On the Short day:—
(i) For the first two hours of Overtime, One-and-a-half times the appropriate Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e Time-and-a-half.
(ii) For Overtime after the first two hours of Overtime, Twice the appropriate Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Double Time.
( b ) That Class of Workers who customarily attend on five days a week:—
(1) On any day other than the weekly holiday, Sunday and Customary Public or Statutory Holidays:—
(i) For the first two hours of Overtime, One-and-a-half times the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Time-and-a-half.
(ii) For the second two hours of Overtime, One-and-a-half times the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Time-and-a-half.
(iii) For Overtime after the first four hours of Overtime, Twice the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Double Time.
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paragraphs: On the weekly holiday:—
(i) For the first four hours of Overtime (that is to say for the first four hours of Work), One-and-a-half times the appropriate Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Time-and-a-half.
(ii) For Overtime after the first four hours of Overtime, Twice the appropriate Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Double Time.
( c ) Workers of either of the above-mentioned Classes:—
(i) On Sunday and Customary Public or Statutory Holidays:—
For all hours worked, Twice the appropriate Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Double Time.
(ii) For all hours worked in any week in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work for the week, One-and-a-half times the appropriate Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Time-and-a-half except in so far as higher Overtime Rates are payable under the provisions of any of the preceding paragraphs of this Section.
PART IV
Conditions Governing Learnership
SECTION I:—A female Learner is a Worker who:—
( a ) Is employed during the whole or a substantial part of the hours of work in learning any branch or process of the Trade by an Employer who provides the Learner with reasonable facilities for learning such branch or process and
( b ) Has received a Learner's Certificate or has been registered as a Learner in the Trade, or has made an application for such certificate of registration which has been duly acknowledged and is still under consideration.
PROVIDED THAT:—
(i) The Learner's Certificate of registration shall become invalid if the other conditions of learnership are not complied with.