Employment Regulation Order (General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour Committee), 1981.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

num: 67
paragraphs: 27
20 years of age and under 21
num: 61
paragraphs: 13
19 years of age and under 20
num: 54
paragraphs: 89
18 years of age and under 19
num: 48
paragraphs: 70
17 years of age and under 18
num: 39
paragraphs: 95
16 years of age and under 17
num: 34
paragraphs: 17
Under 16 years
num: 29
paragraphs: 86
Category II
For the following categories of workers: cloth graders, balers, packers, rag cutters and stitchers.
Per Week
From Date of Order
£
Under 17 years of age
num: 41
paragraphs: 62
17 years of age and under 18
num: 47
paragraphs: 40
18 years of age and over
num: 55
paragraphs: 65
Second Phase
Under this second phase the basic pay of employees shall be increased by 7% (or by such percentage as shall be decided by the Employer Labour Conference) from 25th May, 1981 from which date the increased basic wages as provided shall be payable.
PART II
Normal Working Hours and Overtime Rates
Section I.—
( a ) The normal working week shall be one of 5 days.
( b ) The normal hours of work in any week shall be 40 hours.
provided that—
(1) All time worked on Saturday, Sunday and Customary Public or Statutory Holidays shall be regarded as Overtime to which the Overtime rates shall apply.
(2) The Overtime Rates shall be payable in respect of all time worked on any day in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work for that day notwithstanding that the number of hours worked in the week does not exceed the declared normal number of hours for the week.
(3) The Overtime Rates shall be payable in respect of all time worked in any week in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work for that week except in so far as the Overtime Rate is payable under the provisions of the preceeding paragraphs of this Section.
Section II.—
The Minimum rates for Overtime to apply in respect of hours worked by Categories I and II workers whether employed on Time-Work or on Piece-Work in excess of the declared normal number of hours of work shall be as follows:—
( a ) For all time worked in any week, except Sundays and Customary Public or Statutory Holidays, in excess of the declared normal number of hours for the week, the Overtime Rate shall be time-and-a-half the minimum rate otherwise applicable, i.e. time-and-a-half.
( b ) For all hours worked on Sunday and Customary Public or Statutory Holidays, the Overtime Rate shall be twice the Minimum Rate otherwise applicable, i.e. Double Time.
PART III
Annual Holidays
Those workers who do not have 17 days annual leave shall be entitled to a total of 17 days leave. The entitlement to these additional day(s) shall be based on the provisions of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 .
PART IV
Workers in Relation to whom the Committee Operates
The above minimum rates of wages shall apply, subject to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , to all workers in respect of any time during which they are employed in any Branch of the Trade specified in the Trade Boards (Waste Materials Reclamation) Order, 1920 that is to say:—
num: 1
paragraphs: The collecting, sorting or grading of the following materials:—
Rags; waste paper, paper stock, woollen worsted, cotton jute, flax, hemp or other textile waste, textile clippings or cuttings, used bags, sacks or sacking, scrap rubber, scrap iron or other scrap metal, fur cuttings, rabbit skins, bones or fat, used tins, broken glass or earthenware.
num: 2
paragraphs: The collecting, sorting or grading of the following articles when collected, sorted or graded in association with or in conjunction with the collecting, sorting or grading of the waste materials specified above:—
Discarded clothing (inducing head-gear or foot-gear); discarded textile articles, old ropes, used bottles or used jars.
num: 3
paragraphs: The following operations when carried on in association with or in conjunction with the collecting, sorting or grading of any or all of the waste materials specified in (1) above:—
The ripping of worn clothes for rags, the picking of old ropes, the trimming of paper salvage, the washing of used bottles or used jars, the washing of used tins, the breaking of scrap metal, the drying of rabbit skins, the making or repairing of sacks or bags, the willowing, pulling, scouring, carbonising or putting down mixings of textile waste.
num: 4
paragraphs: The operations of receiving, packing, compressing, teagling, craining, despatching or warehousing when carried on in association with or in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned operations; but excluding;
( a ) any of the above-mentioned operations when carried on in the establishments in which the waste materials are produced, or in which they are used as raw materials for further manufacture.
( b ) the making or repairing of sacks or bags when carried on in a factory or workshop engaged solely or mainly in the making or repairing of sacks or bags.
( c ) the collecting, sorting, grading or drying of rabbit skins when carried on in an establishment in which such operations are the main or principal business or when carried on in or in association with or in conjunction with any business, establishment, branch or department engaged in the manufacture of hatters' fur.
( d ) (i) the collecting, sorting or grading of cotton waste when carried on in an establishment in which such operations are the main or principal business;
(ii) any of the operations included in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 above, other than operations specified in paragraph (d) (i) above, when carried on in association with or in conjunction with any establishment of the kind specified in sub-paragraph (i) above.
PART V
In the case of workers employed on piece-work, each piece rate must be such as will yield in the circumstances of the case to an ordinary worker, not less than the appropriate statutory minimum remuneration. In determining whether any piece-rate satisfies this condition regard must be had only to the earnings of ordinary workers, i.e. workers of ordinary skill and experience in the class of work in question and not to the earnings of workers of less or greater than ordinary skill and experience e.g. learners and infirm workers.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 14th day ofMay, 1981.
(Signed) MICHAEL CORCORAN,
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 minimum rates of pay and regulates conditions of employment of workers employed in the General Waste Materials Reclamation Trade, as from 18th May, 1981. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the General Waste Materials Reclamation Joint Labour Committee.