Employment Regulation Order (Hairdressing (Cork Co. Borough) Joint Labour Committee) 1978.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: Workers employed in Cork Co. Borough in a hairdressing undertaking including hairdressers, apprentice or learner hairdressers, 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 1 hereof or (b) who, in the opinion of the Hairdressing (Cork Co. Borough) 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) (i) has not completed the period of apprenticeship prescribed in Part III, Section 1 hereof and (ii) has received a certificate of registration as an apprentice from the Hairdressing (Cork Co. Borough) 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 "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
Per Week
( a ) Hairdressers employed in Ladies and Unisex hairdressingundertakings.
£30 + 10% commission onpersonal takings over £30.
( b ) Hairdressers employed in Gentlemens hairdressing undertakings.
£42 + 10% commission on personal takings over £42.
( c ) Manicurists employed in all hairdressing undertakings.
£30 + 10% commission on personal takings over £30.
( d ) Apprentices employed in all hairdressing undertakings.
1st year 25%
2nd year 40%
3rd year 60%
4th year 80%
These percentages apply to the basic rate payable to qualified staff in the salon.
(e) Receptionists employed in all hairdressing undertakings.
£35.
With effect from 24th July, 1978 all the above rates to be increased by £2 per week.
SECTION 2 HOURS OF WORK
( a ) The normal number of hours to be worked in any week shall be 40 hours.
( b ) The normal number of hours to be worked on any day shall be 8 hours.
( c ) 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 less than 40 hours, for time worked in excess of 8 hours in any day.
Daily Overtime to be paid at the rate of time-and-a-half to workers whose normal working week is less than 40 hours, for time worked in excess of 8 hours in any day.
SECTION 3.—ANNUAL HOLIDAYS
( a ) Holidays shall be in accordance with the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 .
( b ) Payment in respect of annual leave shall be calculated in accordance with Section 6 (3) (b) of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 .
PART III
CONDITIONS GOVERNING APPRENTICESHIP
SECTION 1.—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 3 months 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 ) Where an apprentice is, through illness, continuously absent from employment for a period in excess of one month, 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 (Cork Co. Borough) Joint Labour Committee.
SECTION II.—NUMBER OF APPRENTICES
( a ) Ladies' and Unisex Hairdressing undertaking
The number of apprentices employed shall not exceed one apprentice to every one hairdresser employed.
( b ) Gentlemen's Hairdressing undertaking
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
Learnership
On commencement of employment as a learner such person shall be registered with the Court. Each employer will be responsible for certifying the length of service of any learner in his employment.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 19th
day of April, 1978.
(Signed) James G. McCauley.
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 from 24th April, 1978 statutory minimum rates of remuneration and statutory conditions of employment of workers employed in the Hairdressing Trade in the County Borough of Cork. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Hairdressing (Cork Co. Borough) Joint Labour Committee.