DIAMOND CUTTING I NDUSTRY SCHEME- SCHEME NO. 20 [ S.L.594.13 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.13 DIAMOND CUTTING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 20 28th August, 1979 LEGAL NOTICE 85 of 1979, as amended by Legal Notices 171 of 1989 and 424 of
- The title of this Scheme is the Diamond Cutting Industry Scheme - Scheme No. 20, and it shall apply to the callings of diamond girdling, diamond polishing, diamond sorting and fixing, and in the discs preparation section for the processing of diamonds, which occupations are hereby being designated as "callings" within the meaning and for the purposes of the Employment and Training Services Act.
- In the scheme, unless the context otherwise requires: "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. Citation and application. Cap.
- Interpretation. Cap.
- No person may be employed as an apprentice under this scheme unless it is shown to the Director or his delegate that such person has a standard of education at least equivalent to that of a person who has either finished the fourth year of Secondary School or the full Trade School Course. Entry qualifications.
- The period of apprenticeship in any of the callings under this scheme shall be of four years. Period of apprenticeship.
- An employer engaging apprentices under this scheme shall undertake to instruct them and to grant them the facilities to learn the processes listed in the First Schedule in relation to each of the callings: Undertaking by employer. Provided that in respect of any of the callings the employer, after carefully considering the aptitude and suitability of an apprentice, and after consultation with the Director, will have the right to decide whether such apprentice should be trained in any one or more of the said callings as the case may be. 6.
(1)The Minister may by order specify such classes of instruction which apprentices employed under this scheme should attend.
(2)Any employer shall afford to any apprentice employed under this scheme facilities for attending such classes throughout the period of apprenticeship.
(3)Such classes shall not take up more than ten hours in any one week.
(4)Should the apprentice fail to attend any classes of instruction on any day without just cause, the employer shall be entitled to make a deduction from the wages of the apprentice equivalent to one-twelfth of the weekly rate in respect of each half- Classes of instruction. 1 2 DIAMOND CUTTING I NDUSTRY SCHEME- SCHEME NO. 20 [ S.L.594.13 day, or part thereof, of default: Provided that when the apprentice is conditioned to a five day week, the deduction shall be at the rate of one-tenth of the weekly rate in respect of each half-day or part thereof, of default. Hours of work. 7.
(1)The hours of work of apprentices employed under this scheme shall not exceed eight hours in any one day: Provided that employers may employ apprentices on overtime 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 eight hours daily time and a half; (
- b)for all time worked in excess of forty hours in any week, exclusive of any time paid at overtime rates 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. on any one day and 6 a.m. of the next following day. Wages. 8. The wages to be paid to apprentices under this scheme shall be those specified in the Second Schedule. Weekly rest. 9. Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every calendar week. Holidays and vacation leave. 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 (
- i)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 (
- ii)vacation leave may not normally be availed of on any day when the apprentice is required to attend school for theoretical instruction. Sick leave. Cap. 318. 11. After completing the first six months of apprenticeship, 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. DIAMOND CUTTING I NDUSTRY SCHEME- SCHEME NO. 20 [ S.L.594.13 12. Apprentices shall be allowed two days paid leave on the occasion of 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 as the case may be), son, daughter, brother and sister of the apprentice. 13. 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 the contravention by him of safety rules laid down by the management. FIRST SCHEDULE Article 5 Calling of Diamond Girdling (
- a)Use of bruting machine (
- b)Cementing of diamonds in dops (
- c)Handling of bruting stick (
- d)Marking diamonds/Sorting diamonds for girdling (
- e)Girdling for rounding of diamonds (
- f)Use of louping glass (
- g)Assembling bruting machine (
- h)Safety precautions Calling of Diamond Polishing (
- a)Use of louping glass (
- b)Use of polishing wheel (
- c)Handling of tangs (
- d)Use of dops for top polishing (
- e)Use of dops for bottom polishing (
- f)Use of dops for table polishing (
- g)Polishing of single cut diamonds (
- h)Polishing of full cut diamonds (
- i)Diamond powder cementing on wheel (
- j)Cementing diamonds in dops/fixing (
- k)Installing polishing wheel on machine (
- l)Safety precautions. Calling of Diamond Sorting and Fixing (
- a)Bereavement leave. Sorting of girdled stones Injury leave. Cap. 318. 3 4 DIAMOND CUTTING I NDUSTRY SCHEME- SCHEME NO. 20 [ S.L.594.13 (
- b)Fixing stones in diamond holder pots (
- c)Setting diamonds on the grain (
- d)Administration and preparation of sorted diamonds. Calling in the Discs Freparation Section for the Processing of Diamonds (
- a)Use of: (
- i)point grinding machine (
- ii)scouring machine (iii) lathe machine (
- iv)balance machine (
- b)Substituted by: L.N. 171 of 1989; L.N. 424 of 2007. Safety precautions. SECOND SCHEDULE Article 8 Year: First ......................................... Second ..................................... Third ........................................ Fourth ...................................... Wages per week €57.19 €63.41 €69.65 €75.87.