S.I. No. 175/1966 - Employment Regulation Order (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee), 1966.

(1)This Order may be cited as Employment Regulation Order (Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee), 1966.

(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 1st day of August, 1966, and as from that date the said Order shall be revoked. SCHEDULE PART I SECTION I.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR MANAGING CLERKS. A Managing Clerk is a legal assistant (not being a Solicitor) of not less than 10 years' experience who is fully experienced in all the branches of a Solicitor's work conducted in the Office in which he is employed and who is able to, and habitually does, conduct legal cases, including the interviewing of clients, in that Office without constant supervision and who is entrusted with the control of a staff of not less than three. For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford For workers employed in all other areas. Per week Per week Per week Per week s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 326 0 319 0 312 0 297 0 SECTION II.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR CONVEYANCING CLERKS. A Conveyancing Clerk is a person who is wholly or mainly engaged in title work in all its branches, including the preparation of contracts, investigation of title, drawing and completion of conveyances, mortgages and other deeds. For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford For workers employed in all other areas. Per week Per week Per week Per week s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1st day of employment 254 0 248 0 242 6 231 6 2nd year of employment 272 0 265 0 259 0 248 0 3rd year of employment and over 290 0 283 0 277 6 263 6 SECTION III.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR COSTS CLERKS. A Costs 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 employer. For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford For workers employed in all other areas. Per week Per week Per week Per week s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1st year of employment 244 0 238 5 232 10 223 1 2nd year of employment 253 6 248 0 242 6 231 6 3rd year of employment and over 262 0 256 6 251 0 240 0 SECTION IV.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR GENERAL LAW CLERKS (MALE) 17 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER. A General Clerk (Male) is a person, other than a Managing Clerk, a Conveyancing Clerk, a Costs 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 duties. For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford For workers employed in all other areas. Per week Per week Per week Per week s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1st year of employment 93 6 93 6 93 6 93 6 2nd year of employment 108 4 108 4 108 4 108 4 3rd year of employment 117 0 117 0 117 0 117 0 4th year of employment 125 8 125 8 125 8 125 8 5th year of employment 157 11 157 11 157 11 157 11 6th year of employment 182 9 179 2 176 8 170 5 7th year of employment 199 0 195 3 191 6 184 0 8th year of employment 225 10 220 4 216 2 206 5 9th year of employment and over 224 0 238 5 232 10 223 1 SECTION V.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR GENERAL LAW CLERKS (FEMALE) 17 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER. A General Law Clerk (Female) is a female person, other than a Managing Clerk, a Conveyancing Clerk, a Costs Clerk, a Shorthand Typist, a Typist or a Bookkeeper as defined elsewhere in this Part but who may be a Court Clerk and who is wholly or mainly engaged on and does perform the clerical duties which a General Law Clerk (Male) normally performs. For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick For workers employed the County Borough of Waterford For workers employed in all other areas. Per week Per week Per week Per week s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1st year of employment 74 11 74 11 74 11 74 11 2nd year of employment 91 6 91 6 91 6 91 6 3rd year of employment 101 3 101 3 101 3 101 3 4th year of employment 110 11 110 11 110 11 110 11 5th year of employment 142 9 142 9 142 9 142 9 6th year of employment 171 10 168 11 165 11 158 8 7th year of employment 190 7 187 8 183 3 174 8 8th year of employment 211 0 206 7 200 10 192 1 9th year of employment and over 219 9 215 5 211 0 200 10 SECTION VI.—MINIMUM RATES OF REMUNERATION FOR SHORTHAND-TYPISTS TYPISTS AND BOOK-KEEPERS (FEMALE). A Shorthand Typist, a Typist or a Book-keeper (Female) is a female person who is wholly or mainly employed on one or more or the following duties, viz., shorthand, typing, book-keeping, copying, scrivenery, filing, post work or telephone operation. For workers employed in the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork, and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire For workers employed in the County Borough of Limerick For workers employed in the County Borough of Waterford For workers employed in all other areas. Per week Per week Per week Per week s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1st year of employment 74 11 74 11 74 11 74 11 2nd year of employment 91 6 91 6 91 6 91 6 3rd year of employment 101 3 101 3 101 3 101 3 4th year of employment 110 11 110 11 110 11 110 11 5th year of employment 142 9 142 9 142 9 142 9 6th year of employment 152 10 150 0 147 1 145 7 7th year of employment 163 0 160 2 155 9 150 0 8th year of employment 173 7 171 0 168 3 161 6 SECTION Vl (a).—ASSESSMENT OF SERVICE. A Shorthand Typist, Typist or Book-keeper (Female) who is upgraded to be a General Law Clerk (Female) shall for one year be remunerated on the Section VI scale at the end of which she shall be placed at the next higher salary point in the scale for General Law Clerks (Female). SECTION VII.—OVERTIME RATES. The minimum hourly rates for overtime shall be as follows :— (i) For the first two hours of overtime—one-and-a-quarter times the hourly rates as defined in Section II, Part II below i.e., Time-and-a-quarter. (ii) For all hours of overtime in excess of the first two hours—one-and-a-half times the hourly rate 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 working week shall not exceed 38 hours. Where the normal working hours prescribed by an employer are 38 or less in any week or 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. 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 38. SECTION III.—MEAL INTERVALS: Meal intervals shall not be reckoned as time worked. SECTION IV.—OVERTIME: All hours worked in excess of 38 in any week shall be overtime and shall be paid for at overtime rates as specified in Section VII, 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: Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates and who qualify for annual leave under the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961 , shall be granted a period of fourteen consecutive days' holidays including two Sundays. Where a worker ceases to be employed by a particular employer before the end of his employment year and has not been allowed annual leave in respect of the period of that year during which he was so employed, the employer shall pay to him on the cesser of that employment one full day's pay for each month of the period during which he worked not not less than 135 hours (120 hours in case of workers under 18 years of age). 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, court clerks, costs clerks, typists, stenographers and book-keepers, but excluding Solicitors' Apprentices and Solicitors. GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 20th day of July, 1966. (Signed) D. MAC DIARMADA, 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 1st August, 1966, for certain workers employed in Solicitors' offices. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee. 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