Employment Regulation Order (Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee), 2004
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: Workers employed in the areas known, until 1st January, 1994, as the County and County Borough of Dublin, the Borough of DÃºn Laoghaire and the Urban District of Bray, in a hairdressing undertaking, including hairdressers, apprentice hairdressers, beauticians and manicurists.
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paragraphs: In this Schedule, “hairdressing undertaking” means an undertaking, or any part of an undertaking, which is wholly or mainly engaged in hairdressing, including operations incidental or ancillary thereto.
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paragraphs: In this Schedule, “hairdressing” includes the following operations performed on hair growing on the head, face or neck of a male or female person, that is to say, lathering, shaving, cutting, singeing, shampooing, waving, setting, dressing, tinting, dyeing, bleaching or similar operations.
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paragraphs: In this Schedule, “hairdresser” means a person who is employed on any of the operations of hairdressing set out herein and (a) who has completed the period of apprenticeship prescribed in Part III, Section I hereof or (b) who, in the opinion of the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee, has otherwise qualified as a hairdresser.
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paragraphs: In this Schedule, “Apprentice” means a male or female worker who is employed on any of the operations of hairdressing set out herein and (a) who (i) has not completed the period of apprenticeship prescribed in Part III, Section I hereof and (ii) has received a certificate of registration as an apprentice from the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee or in respect of whom an application for such certificate has been made and has been duly acknowledged and is still under consideration, or (b) who, in the opinion of the Committee, has not otherwise qualified as a hairdresser.
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paragraphs: In this Schedule, “Beautician” means a worker who is wholly or mainly engaged in the process of beauty culture.
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paragraphs: In this Schedule, “Manicurist” means a worker who is wholly or mainly engaged in manicuring.
PART II
STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
SECTION I: RATES OF REMUNERATION
Payment of hairdressers other than apprentices shall consist of a basic wage plus commission on takings. Where a basic rate plus commission is paid, a record of each worker's takings shall be kept by the employer and shall be made available to the worker for the purpose of verifying the amount of commission due to him or her each week.
(a) Ladies’ Hairdressing
From 1st September, 2004
From 1st June, 2005
From 1st March, 2006
From 1st September, 2006
€240.67 per week
€247.89 per week
€252.85 per week
€257.91 per week
plus 10% commission on personal takings*
(b) Gentlemen's Hairdressing
€240.62 per week
€247.84 per week
€252.80 per week
€257.86 per week
plus 12½% commission on personal takings*
(c) Unisex Hairdressing
€240.62 per week
€247.84 per week
€252.80 per week
€257.86 per week
plus 12½% commission on personal takings*
*After the deduction of the relevant VAT
NOTE: The hourly rate of pay (inclusive of commission), in the above categories, shall yield a rate of not less than €7.00 (in compliance with Orders made under the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 ).
(d) Beauticians and Manicurists
(i) Trainees
Under Age 18
€156.66 per week
€161.36 per week
€164.58 per week
€167.87 per week
+10% commission on personal takings*, to give a rate per hour of not less than €4.90†
Age 18 and Over — First 4 months
€167.85 per week
€172.88 per week
€176.34 per week
€179.87 per week
+10% commission on personal takings*, to give a rate per hour of not less than €5.25†
Second 4 months
€179.04 per week
€184.41 per week
€188.10 per week
€191.86 per week
+10% commission on personal takings*, to give a rate per hour of not less than €5.60†
Third 4 months
€201.42 per week
€207.46 per week
€211.61 per week
€215.84 per week
+10% commission on personal takings*, to give a rate per hour of not less than €6.30†
(ii) On Completion of 1 year's Training
€223.80 per week
€230.51 per week
€235.12 per week
€239.82 per week
+10% commission on personal takings*, to give a rate per hour of not less than €7.00†
*After the deduction of the relevant VAT.
For the purpose of the above, the term “takings” shall mean all takings other than those on sales of proprietary goods.
†In compliance with Orders made under the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 .
(e) Apprentices
Under Age 18
From 1st September, 2004
From 1st June, 2005
From 1st March, 2006
From 1st September, 2006
€199.10 per week
€205.07 per week
€209.17 per week
€213.36 per week
Age 18 and Over
During 1st year of Apprenticeship
€213.32 per week
€219.72 per week
€224.12 per week
€228.60 per week
During 2nd year of Apprenticeship
€227.54 per week
€234.37 per week
€239.06 per week
€243.84 per week
During 3rd year of Apprenticeship
€255.99 per week
€263.66 per week
€268.94 per week
€274.32 per week
During 4th year of Apprenticeship
€284.43 per week
€292.96 per week
€298.82 per week
€304.80 per week
SECTION II: HOURS OF WORK
(a) The weekly working hours shall be 39.
(b) The normal number of hours to be worked on any day shall be 8 hours.
(c) Employees whose hours of work include the hours from 11.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. are entitled to a break of at least one hour after 6 hours of work in accordance with the provisions of S.I. 57/1998.
(d) Overtime to be paid as follows:
Weekly overtime to be paid at the rate of time-and-a-half to workers whose normal working week is 39 hours, for time worked in excess of 39 hours in any week.
Daily overtime to be paid at the rate of time-and-a-half to workers whose normal working week is less than 39 hours for time worked in excess of 8 hours in any day.
Sunday overtime to be paid at twice the minimum rate otherwise applicable i.e. double time.
SECTION III: ANNUAL HOLIDAYS
(a) All employees are entitled to paid annual leave in accordance with the provisions of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 .
(b) Payment in respect of annual leave shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 .
(c) Entitlements in respect of Public Holidays shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 .
SECTION IV: SERVICE PAY
Service Pay to apply as follows:
5 years’ continuous service — €0.63 per week
10 years’ continuous service — €0.95 per week
15 years’ continuous service — €1.90 per week
20 years’ continuous service — €2.54 per week
SECTION V: COMPASSIONATE LEAVE
Compassionate Leave shall apply as follows:
(a) Three days for the death of a close relative, i.e. mother, father, sister, brother, wife, husband, son or daughter.
(b) One day for the death of an aunt, uncle, parent-in-law, grandparent; where the deceased is a more distant relative, by agreement between employer and employee.
SECTION VI: SICK PAY SCHEME
(a) Employee to notify employer of illness before 12 noon on first day of illness.
(b) Medical certificate to be submitted by third day of illness and on a weekly basis thereafter.
(c) An employee must have completed six months’ employment in a hairdressing salon before qualifying for benefit.
(d) No benefit to be paid for the first three days of illness.
(e) All qualified personnel to receive €10.16 per week for fifteen weeks where the employee's income from other sources (i.e. Social Welfare, PRSI etc.) does not exceed normal basic pay rate. Pro-rata benefits to apply to apprentices as follows:
Apprentices
1st year
— €3.81 per week
2nd year
— €4.76 per week
3rd year
— €5.71 per week
4th year
— €7.62 per week
(f) Contribution to scheme to be €0.13 per week for apprentices and €0.15 per week for qualified stylists.
PART III
CONDITIONS GOVERNING APPRENTICESHIP
SECTION I: PERIOD OF APPRENTICESHIP
The period of employment by way of apprenticeship shall be 4 years, commencing on the date on which the worker is first employed:
Provided that—
(a) An employer may employ an apprentice on his or her first employment for a probationary period not exceeding one month without a certificate of Registration but, in the event of such apprentice being continued, thereafter, in employment, the probationary period shall be included in the period of apprenticeship.
(b) An apprentice who transfers from a Salon covered by the Hairdressing (Cork Co. Borough) Joint Labour Committee to a salon covered by the Hairdressing (Dublin) Joint Labour Committee shall be entitled to recognition for the period of apprenticeship already served.
(c) Where an apprentice is, through illness, continuously absent from employment for a period in excess of two months, the appropriate year of his or her employment by way of apprenticeship may be extended by a period equal to such excess period, at the discretion of the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee.
SECTION II: NUMBER OF APPRENTICES
(a) Ladies’ Hairdressing
The number of apprentices employed shall not exceed one apprentice to every one hairdresser employed.
(b) Gentlemen's Hairdressing
The number of apprentices employed shall not exceed one apprentice to the first one or two hairdressers employed and, thereafter, one additional apprentice to every two hairdressers employed in excess of the first two.
SECTION III: REGISTRATION
(a) An employer who wishes to employ a worker as an apprentice must apply to the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee for registration of the worker. Application must be made even though the worker was previously registered as an apprentice in the trade. The Committee shall, in due course, issue a certificate of Registration to the said employer.
(b) The employer shall safely keep the Certificate of Registration and shall produce it, on request, to an Inspector duly appointed by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment under Part IV of the Industrial Relations Act 1946 , or to the Committee. He shall also surrender it to the apprentice when leaving his employment and shall enter on it the date of termination of employment.
PART IV
GENERAL
Nothing in this Employment Regulation Order shall be taken to exclude, limit or be in any way inconsistent with the rights of any employee under any statutory enactment.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 23rd day of August, 2004.
KEVIN DUFFY,
Chairman.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)
This Instrument fixes, with effect from 1st September, 2004, statutory minimum rates of remuneration and regulates statutory conditions of employment for workers employed in the Hairdressing Trade in the areas known, until 1st January, 1994, as the County and County Borough of Dublin, the Borough of DÃºn Laoghaire and the Urban District of Bray. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Hairdressing (Dublin) Joint Labour Committee.