SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 12 [ S.L.594.10 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.10 SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEME SCHEME NO. 12 11th May, 1954 GOVERNMENT NOTICE 194 of 1954, as amended by Government Notice 218 of 1957, Act XLIV of 1965, and Legal Notices 32 of 1967, 119 of 1969, 47 and 77 of 1970, 124 of 1976, 61 and 86 of 1977, 51 of 1978, 80 of 1979 and 424 of
- The title of this Scheme is the Shoe Manufacturing Industry Scheme - Scheme No.
- Citation.
- In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and expressions used shall have the same meaning as those assigned to them by the Employment and Training Services Act. Interpretation.
- This scheme shall apply to the calling of shoe manufacturing operative in establishments producing shoes mainly or wholly by machine, and to the calling of shoe uppers maker and shoe maker respectively in establishments producing shoes mainly or wholly by hand methods whether bespoke or otherwise. Applicability.
- No person may be employed as an apprentice under this scheme unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director that such person has either completed the fourth year of a Secondary School or the full Trade School Course. Employment as apprentice. Amended by: XLIV. 1965.
- Substituted by: L.N. 61 of 1977; L.N. 51 of
- Employers engaging apprentices under this scheme shall undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn the following processes: Processes to be learnt. A. Shoe Manufacturing Operative.
(1)The apprentices shall spend the first four weeks of the probationary period in the acquisition of a general knowledge of the sequence of processes of production in all the denartments mentioned below.
(2)Thereafter they will be placed in any one of the following departments to learn the processes described, namely: (
- a)Clicking Department (
- i)Characteristics and identification of the principal types of leather and of fabrics used for outsides and linings. (
- ii)Cutting of outsides and linings using clicker’s knife or clicking press. (iii) Safety precautions in workshop. (
- b)Bottom Stock and Preparation Department (
- i)Characteristics and identification of the principal types of bottom leathers and other bottoming materials used. Cap. 594. 1 2 SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 12 [ S.L.594.10 (
- ii)(iii) Cutting of soles and heels. Rounding and moulding of cut soles; grooving and channelling of soles; heel making. (
- iv)Safety precautions in workshop. (
- c)Making Department (
- i)Pulling of uppers over last; lasting. (
- ii)Attaching of soles to uppers; heel attaching. (iii) Safety precautions in workshop. (
- d)Finishing Department (
- i)Trimming and scouring of soles and heels. (
- ii)Edge setting. (iii) Painting and polishing of bottoms. (
- iv)Safety precautions in workshop. B. Shoe Uppers Maker
(1)Characteristics and identification of the principal types of leather and fabrics used for outsides and lining.
(2)Cutting of outsides and lining using the clicker’s knife.
(3)Thinning of edges; cementing and folding of edges; perforating of uppers; stitching of outsides and linings and closing of same; flattening of seams; making of eyelets and button holes and attaching buttons.
(4)Safety precautions in workshop. C. Shoemaker
(1)Characteristics and identification of the principa1 types of bottom leathers and other bottoming materials used.
(2)Cutting of soles, heels and other parts to make up the shoe.
(3)Preparing bottom stock for attachment; heel making.
(4)Matching of uppers with bottom stock parts; pulling of uppers over last; lasting; attaching of soles to uppers; attaching soles.
(5)Trimming and scouring of soles and heels; edge setting; painting and polishing of bottoms; cleaning of uppers.
(6)Safety precautions in workshop. Period of apprenticeship. Amended by: XLIV. 1965.4; L.N. 119 of 1969. 6.
(1)The period of apprenticeship in each of the above callings shall be of four years: Provided that the said period of four years shall be reduced by six months, to a total reduction of not more than one year, in respect of: (
- i)each complete year of attendance by the prospective apprentice following the attainment by him of the twelfth year of his age, at any shoe making course in SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 12 [ S.L.594.10 3 any trade school or institution of a standard approved by the Minister, such attendance being certified as satisfactory by the Director of the school or institution concerned; and (
- ii)each year of learnership in any of the above callings, undergone by the prospective apprentice with the permission of the Director: Provided that in respect of contracts of apprenticeship entered into after the first day of January, 1970 (
- a)for the words "in each of the above callings shall be four years" there shall be substituted the words "in the case of Shoe Operative and Shoemaker shall be of four years and in the case of Shoe Uppers-Maker shall be of three years"; and (
- b)for the words "four years" in the proviso to subarticle
(1), there shall be substituted the words "four and three years as the case may be".
(2)A person who has completed an apprenticeship in either of the callings of shoe uppers-maker or shoemaker shall be credited with two years towards the period of apprenticeship in the other calling. 7. The wages payable to apprentices in any of the callings to which this scheme applies shall be as follows: (
- a)in the case of shoe operatives and shoemaker: Year First Second Third Fourth Wages per week €24.57 €30.79 €37.04 €43.26; Wages. Amended by: G.N. 218 of 1957. Substituted by: L.N. 32 of 1967; L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 124 of 1976; L.N. 61 of 1977; L.N. 80 of 1979. Amended by: L.N. 424 of 2007. (
- b)in the case of shoe uppers maker: Year First Second Third Wages per week €33.92 €38.60 €43.26. 8.
(1)The hours of work of apprentices employed under this scheme shall not exceed nine hours in any one day: Provided that employers may employ apprentices on overtime work with the approval of the Director, who may impose such conditions as he may deem fit, at the following rates of remuneration: (
- a)for all time worked in excess of nine hours daily: time and a half; (
- b)for all time worked in excess of forty-five hours in any week, exclusive of any time paid at overtime rates: Hours of work. Amended by: XLIV. 1965.4. Substituted by: L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 47 of 1970. 4 [ S.L.594.10 SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 12 time and a half; (
- c)for all time worked on Sundays and on customary holidays: double time.
(2)Apprentices under 16 years of age may not be employed between 11 p.m. of any one day and 6 a.m. of the next following day. Periods of rest. Substituted by: L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 80 of 1979. Vacation leave. Substituted by: L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 77 of 1970; L.N. 86 of 1977. 9. Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every calendar week. 10. Apprentices shall be entitled, in every calendar year, to (
- a)all customary holidays with full pay, and (
- b)after three months in employment, vacation leave of such number of working days with full pay as is equivalent to the number of working days as that particular apprentice should normally attend to work during a period of four weeks: Provided that (
- a)all apprentices who have been in employment for less than one year shall be entitled to such part of the said vacation leave as is in proportion to the number of months in employment, and (
- b)vacation leave may not normally be availed of on any day when the apprentice is required to attend school for theoretical instruction. Sick leave. Amended by: G.N. 217 of 1957. Substituted by: L.N. 119 of 1969. Cap. 318. 11.
(1)After completing the first six months of anprenticeship, apprentices shall be entitled to twenty days sick leave on full pay in every calendar year less any sickness benefit to which they may be entitled under the Social Security Act: Provided that a medical certificate certifying incapacity for work covering the period of absence is produced to the employer, who may require his medical practitioner to examine the apprentice.
(2)Apprentices shall not be entitled to the payment of any wages for the first three days of every period of sick leave: Provided that the number of unpaid days of sick leave shall not be deducted from the entitlement of paid sick leave. Bereavement leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- Apprentices shall be allowed two days paid leave on the death of any of the following: the wife, husband, mother, father (or the person who at the time was in fact acting as the mother or father), son, daughter, brother and sister of the apprentice. Customary holidays. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- Amended by: L.N. 124 of
- Substituted by: L.N. 61 of
- Cap.
- In this scheme, "customary holidays" means the days (other than Sundays) declared for the time being to be public holidays by or under the National Day and other Public Holidays Act. SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 12 [ S.L.594.10
- An apprentice shall be entitled to one year injury leave on full pay, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which an apprentice may be entitled in terms of the Social Security Act, if he is injured during the actual discharge of his duty and such injury is not due to contributory negligence on his part or to contravention by him of safety rules laid down by the management. Injury leave. Added by: L.N. 80 of
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