Employment Regulation Order (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee), 1998
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

num: 253
paragraphs: 62
num: 258
paragraphs: 69
SECTION II
CONVEYANCING CLERK/COST CLERK
1st year of employment
num: 211
paragraphs: 11
num: 215
paragraphs: 33
2nd year of employment
num: 219
paragraphs: 63
num: 224
paragraphs: 02
3rd year of employment
num: 225
paragraphs: 28
num: 229
paragraphs: 79
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.
FROM 12th JUNE, 1998
FROM 12TH DECEMBER, 1998
Per Week
£
£
SECTION III
GENERAL LAW CLERK 17 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER
First six months of employment
num: 131
paragraphs: 54
num: 134
paragraphs: 17
Second " " " "
num: 137
paragraphs: 92
num: 140
paragraphs: 68
2nd year of employment
num: 144
paragraphs: 28
num: 147
paragraphs: 17
3rd year of employment
num: 150
paragraphs: 64
num: 153
paragraphs: 65
4th year of employment
num: 157
paragraphs: 50
num: 160
paragraphs: 65
5th year of employment
num: 168
paragraphs: 70
num: 172
paragraphs: 07
6th year of employment
num: 175
paragraphs: 80
num: 179
paragraphs: 32
7th year of employment
num: 183
paragraphs: 12
num: 186
paragraphs: 78
8th year of employment
num: 194
paragraphs: 10
num: 197
paragraphs: 98
9th year of employment
num: 202
paragraphs: 62
num: 206
paragraphs: 67
10th year of employment
num: 211
paragraphs: 11
num: 215
paragraphs: 33
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.
FROM 12th JUNE, 1998
FROM 12TH DECEMBER 1998
Per Week
£
£
SECTION IV
SHORTHAND TYPIST/TYPIST
First six months of employment
num: 131
paragraphs: 54
num: 134
paragraphs: 17
Second " " " "
num: 137
paragraphs: 92
num: 140
paragraphs: 68
2nd year of employment
num: 144
paragraphs: 28
num: 147
paragraphs: 17
3rd year of employment
num: 150
paragraphs: 64
num: 153
paragraphs: 65
4th year of employment
num: 157
paragraphs: 03
num: 160
paragraphs: 17
5th year of employment
num: 164
paragraphs: 02
num: 167
paragraphs: 30
6th year of employment
num: 171
paragraphs: 06
num: 174
paragraphs: 48
7th year of employment
num: 178
paragraphs: 22
num: 181
paragraphs: 78
8th year of employment
num: 185
paragraphs: 68
num: 189
paragraphs: 39
9th year of employment
num: 194
paragraphs: 10
num: 197
paragraphs: 98
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.
FROM 12TH JUNE, 1998
FROM 12TH DECEMBER, 1998
Per Week
£
£
SECTION V
MESSENGER
1st year of employment
num: 127
paragraphs: 36
num: 129
paragraphs: 91
2nd year of employment
num: 133
paragraphs: 71
num: 136
paragraphs: 38
3rd year of employment
num: 140
paragraphs: 05
num: 142
paragraphs: 85
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 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
Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates shall be entitled to a total of 20 days' paid leave per year.
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 8th day of June, 1998.
(SIGNED) EVELYN OWENS
CHAIRMAN
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Instrument fixes statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment as from 12th June, 1998 for certain workers employed in Solicitors' Offices. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee.