Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Nylon Hosiery) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1985.
AI-assisted research summary: These Regulations exclude manufacture of nylon hosiery from the relevant industrial-work rule, and set shift limits for that work: no shift over eight hours, and no woman may work a shift until at least eleven hours after she last did industrial work the previous day.
S.I. No. 78/1985 - Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Nylon Hosiery) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1985. S.I. No. 78 of 1985. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF NYLON HOSIERY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1985. I, RUAIRI QUINN, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 29 52 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the form of industrial work specified in these Regulations and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following Regulations: 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Nylon Hosiery) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1985. 2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 , (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations. 3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the manufacture of nylon hosiery, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of Section 46 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936). 4. The following provisions shall have effect in respect of the work to which these Regulations relate: ) no shift shall be longer than eight hours in duration, ) no woman shall work on any shift until the expiration of at least eleven hours from the time at which she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day. GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of March 1985. RUAIRI QUINN, Minister for Labour. EXPLANATORY NOTE. Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , prohibits the employment of adult female workers between the hours of 10 p.m. on any day and 8 a.m. the following day. The effect of these Regulations is to permit the employment of adult females on shift work between the hours of 8 a. m. on any day and 8 a.m. on the following day on the manufacture of nylon hosiery.