Employment Regulation Order (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee) 1983.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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SECTION I — MANAGING CLERK:
A Managing Clerk is a legal assistant (not being a Solicitor) who is fully experienced in all branches of Solicitors' work conducted in the office in which he/she is employed and who is able to, and habitually does, conduct legal cases, including the interviewing of clients, in that office without constant supervision.
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SECTION II — CONVEYANCING
CLERK/COST CLERK:
1st year of employment
2nd year of employment
3rd year of employment
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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
Second six months of employment
2nd year of employment
3rd year of employment
4th year of employment
5th year of employment
6th year of employment
7th year of employment
8th year of employment
9th year of employment
10th year of employment
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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 book-keeper and who is wholly or mainly engaged on clerical or book-keeping duties.
SECTION IV — SHORTHAND
TYPIST/TYPIST:
First six months of employment
Second six months of employment
2nd year of employment
3rd year of employment
4th year of employment
5th year of employment
6th year of employment
7th year of employment
8th year of employment
9th year of employment
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A Shorthand Typist or a 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, dispatch 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
2nd year of employment
3rd year of employment
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A Messenger is a person wholly or mainly engaged in post work, collection and delivery.
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 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 working week shall not exceed 38 hours. 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.
The normal number of hours to be worked by workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be as follows:—
Normal
Hours
Workers over 16 years of age — in any week not exceeding
38
For workers over 16 years and under 18 years the maximum number of hours which may be worked shall be governed by the provisions of the Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1977 .
Normal Hours
Maximum Hours
Workers between 15 and 16 years of age — in any week not exceeding
37½
40
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 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 . Those workers who do not have 20 days paid leave shall be entitled to a total of 20 days paid leave in the current holiday year 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 book-keepers, but excluding Solicitors' Apprentices and Solicitors.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 27th day of
July, 1983.
(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 new statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from the 8th August, 1983 for certain workers employed in Solicitors' Offices. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee.