Employment Regulation Order (Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee) 1986.

S.I. No. 17/1986 - Employment Regulation Order (Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee) 1986. S.I. No. 17 of 1986. EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (HAIRDRESSING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE) 1986. WHEREAS the Labour Court (hereinafter called "the Court") pursuant to the provisions of Section 43 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , (hereinafter called "the Act") made an Employment Regulation Order dated 30th November, 1984 ( S.I. No. 313 of 1984 ) (hereinafter called "the said Order") fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called "the Committee") operates; AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted to the Court a proposal for revoking the said Order; AND WHEREAS the Committee has also submitted to the Court the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for fixing the statutory minimum rates of remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Committee operates; AND WHEREAS the provisions of Section 43 of the Act have been complied with; NOW, THEREFORE, the Court, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 43 of the Act hereby orders as follows: (1) This Order may be cited as Employment Regulation Order (Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee), 1986. (2) Effect is hereby given to the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto. (3) The provisions set out in the Schedule hereto shall have effect as from the 3rd February, 1986 and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked. : Enquiries should be directed to the Secretary, Joint Labour Committees Section, The Labour Court, Tom Johnson House, Haddington Road, Dublin 4. (Phone 608444, Extension Nos. 301, 303 and 304). PART I. WORKERS TO WHOM THIS SCHEDULE APPLIES. "1. Workers employed in the *County and County Borough of Dublin, the Borough of Dun Laoghaire and the Urban District of Bray in a hairdressing undertaking including hairdressers, apprentice hairdressers, beauticians and manicurists. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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 Joint Labour Committee, has otherwise qualified as a hairdresser. 5. 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) who (i) has not completed the period of apprenticeship prescribed in part III. Section I hereof and (ii) has received a certificate of registration as an apprentice from the hairdressing 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. 6. In this Schedule "Beautician" means "a worker who is wholly or mainly engaged in the process of beauty culture". 7. 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. Payment of hairdressers other than apprentices shall consist of a basic wage plus commission on takings. Where a basic rate plus commission is paid a record of each worker's takings shall be kept by the employer and shall be made available to the worker for the purpose of verifying the amount of commission due to him or her each week. * The Provisions of the Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985 (section 10 and 18) do not apply). From effective date of order From 4th August, 1986 (a) Ladies Hairdressing £97.71 plus 10% commission on personal takings after VAT has been deducted. £100.64 plus 10% commission on personal takings after VAT has been deducted. (b) Gentlemens Hairdressing £99.55 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £18 after VAT has been deducted. £102.54 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £18 after VAT has been deducted. 4 days, 32 hours £90.19 +12½ in £ commission after personal takings of £15 after VAT has been deducted. £92.89 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £15 after VAT has been deducted. 3 days, 24 hours £75.74 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £12 after VAT has been deducted. £78.02 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £12 after VAT has been deducted. 2 days, 16 hours £68.48 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £9 after VAT has been deducted. £70.54 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £9 after VAT has been deducted. 1 day, 8 hours consisting of Saturdays only £25.67 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £3 after VAT has been deducted £26.44 + 12½p in £ commission after personal takings of £3 after VAT has been deducted. For any other single day For any period other than those mentioned above, payment shall be made at the rate of £18.40 per day from effective date of Order and £18.95 from 4th August, 1986. For the purpose of this paragraph the term "takings" shall mean all takings other than those on sales of proprietary goods. (c) Beauticians and Manicurists £71.42 + 10% commission on personal takings after VAT has been deducted. £73.56 + 10% commission on personal takings after VAT has been deducted. On completion of first year £87.44 + 10% commission on personal takings after VAT has been deducted. £90.07 + 10% commission on personal takings after VAT has been deducted. (d) Apprentices From effective Date of Order From 4/8/86 During 1st year of Apprenticeship 30.18 31.09 During 2nd year of Apprenticeship 36.82 37.92 During 3rd year of Apprenticeship 45.69 47.06 During 4th year of Apprenticeship 66.19 68.17 Where operatives are employed in both ladies' and gentlemens' hairdressing the rates in paragraph ( ) shall apply. SECTION II. HOURS OF WORK. ) the normal number of hours to be worked on any day shall be 8 hours; ) 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 40 hours for time worked in excess of 40 hours in any week. 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. Sunday Overtime to be paid at twice the minimum rate otherwise applicable i.e. double time. SECTION III ANNUAL HOLIDAYS. ) Those workers who do not have 20 days Paid Leave shall be entitled to a total of 20 days paid leave in the holiday year 1983/84 and thereafter. The entitlement to these additional day(s) shall be based on the provisions of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 ) Payment in respect of annual leave shall be calculated in accordance with Section 6 (3) of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 ) Payment in respect of Public Holidays shall be in accordance with the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 SECTION IV. SERVICE PAY. Service Pay to apply as follows: 5 years continuous service 10 ,, ,, ,, 15 ,, ,, ,, 20 ,, ,, ,, SECTION V. COMPASSIONATE LEAVE. Compassionate Leave shall apply as follows: ) Three days for the death of a close relative i.e. mother, father, sister, brother, wife, husband, son or daughter. ) One day for the death of an aunt, uncle, parent-in-law, grandparent, where the deceased is a more distant relative, by agreement between employer and employee. SECTION VI. SICK PAY SCHEME. ) Employee to notify employer of illness before 12 noon on first day of illness. ) Medical certificate to be submitted by third day of illness and on a weekly basis thereafter. ) An employee must have completed six months employment in a hairdressing salon before qualifying for benefit. ) No benefit to be paid for the first three days of illness. ) All qualified personnel to receive £8 per week for fifteen weeks where the employees income from other sources i.e. Social Welfare, PRSI etc., does not exceed normal basic pay rate. Prorata benefits to apply to apprentices as follows: 1st year per week 2nd year ,, ,, 3rd year ,, ,, 4th year ,, ,, ) Contribution to scheme to be 10p per week for apprentices and 12p per week for qualified stylists. PART III. CONDITIONS GOVERNING APPRENTICESHIP. SECTION I. 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— ) An employer may employ an apprentice on his or her first employment for a probationary period not exceeding one month 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. ) An apprentice who transfers from a Salon covered by the Hairdressing (Cork Co. Borough) Joint Labour Committee to a salon covered by the Hairdressing (Dublin) Joint Labour Committee shall be entitled to recognition for the period of apprenticeship already served. ) Where an apprentice is, through illness, continuously absent from employment for a period in excess of two months, 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 Joint Labour Committee. SECTION II NUMBER OF APPRENTICES. ) Ladies' Hairdressing The number of apprentices employed shall not exceed one apprentice to every one hairdresser employed. ) Gentlemens' Hairdressing 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. ) An employer who wishes to employ a worker as an apprentice must apply to the hairdressing Joint Labour Committee for registration of the worker. Application must be made even though the worker was previously registered as an apprentice in the trade. The Committee shall, in due course, issue a certificate of Registration to the said employer. ) The employer shall safely keep the Certificate of Registration and shall produce it on request to an inspector duly appointed by the Minister for Labour under Part IV of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , or to the Committee. he shall also surrender it to the apprentice when leaving his employment and shall enter on it the date of termination of employment. GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 22nd day of January, 1986. (Signed) JOHN M. HORGAN, EXPLANATORY NOTE. This Instrument fixes as from 3rd February, 1986 statutory minimum rates of pay and regulates statutory conditions of employment for workers employed in the Hairdressing Trade in the County and Borough of Dublin, the Borough of Dun Laoghaire and the Urban District of Bray. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee.