BESPOKE TAILORING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 2 [ S.L.594.02 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.02 BESPOKE TAILORING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 2 2nd May, 1952 GOVERNMENT NOTICE 214 of 1952, as amended by Government Notices 114 and 523 of 1953, and 210 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 Bespoke Tailoring Industry Scheme - Scheme No.
- Citation.
- In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and expressions used shall have the same meanings as those assigned to them by the Employment and Training Services Act. Interpretation.
- This scheme shall apply to the calling of tailor in any establishment engaged in the bespoke tailoring of garments for men and boys. 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. General - use of needle, thimble and shears; identification of parts of various garments; stitching including: back stitch, fore and running stitch, back and fore stitch, serging stitch, foiling stitch, cross stitch, padding stitch, tacking stitch, basting stitch, fine drawing, button hole stitch; marking of sleeve, lining, pockets, canvases, flap jettings, cuts breast pockets; shaping shoulders; making of facings and edges. Pressing including - use of hand irons, pressing seams, edge pressing, pressing pockets and flaps; use of moisture, soap and damping cloths; shrinking and stretching of parts of garments; pressing of garments. Sewing Machine including - threading up, regulating tension, adjustments and care of machine. Making of Trousers including - stays, fly, button catch, pockets, inlays, darts, flaps, seams, finishing bottoms, waistband, pleats tacking buttons. Making Waist-coats including - pockets, darts, making up edges, shoulders, lining, inside pockets, back straps, sleeves for waistcoat. Making Coats including - marking, putting in darts, Cap.
- 1 2 [ S.L.594.02 BESPOKE TAILORING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 2 pockets, cutting and making canvas, making up the linings, finishing fronts, collars, sleeves. Measurements of the figure for normal, corpulent, abnormal, sub-normal and unusual variations. Design and Cutting of garments, including laying out of plain, striped and checked materials; matching of checks and difficult cloths. Garment Making including - lounge suit, complete double and single breasted; sports coat; dinner jacket; mess jacket; and one other garment being either morning coat, dress coat or overcoat. Period of apprenticeship. Amended by: XLIV. 1965.4; L.N. 119 of
- The period of apprenticeship shall be of six years: Provided that six months shall be deducted from the said period of six years, to a total of not more than two years, in respect of: (i) each year of attendance by the prospective apprentice, following the attainment by him of the twelfth year of his age, in a full-time tailoring course in the Government Tailoring School or in any other school or institute of comparable standard approved by the Minister responsible for labour, such attendance being certified as satisfactory by the Director of the school or institution concerned; and (ii) each year of learnership in the calling of tailor undergone by the prospective apprentice with the permission of the Director: Provided that in respect of contracts of apprenticeship entered into after the 1st day of January, 1970, for the words "six years" wherever they occur in this article, there shall be substituted the words "five years". Wages. Substituted by: G.N. 210 of 1957; L.N. 32 of 1967; L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 124 of 1976; L.N. 61 of 1977; L.N. 80 of
- Amended by: L.N. 424 of
- The wages payable to the apprentices in the calling to which this scheme applies shall be as follows: Hours of work. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- Substituted by: L.N. 47 of
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(1)The hours of work of apprentices employed under this scheme shall not exceed nine hours in any one day: Year First Second Third Fourth Fifth Wages per week €24.57 €29.23 €33.92 €38.60 €43.26. 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 nine hours daily - time and a half; BESPOKE TAILORING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 2 [ S.L.594.02 3 (
- b)for all time worked in excess of forty-five 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. of any one day and 6 a.m. of the next following day.
- The rates of wages for learners specified in article 7 shall hold good subject to such provision as may hereafter be made under the Employment and Industrial Relations Act. Applicability of Employment and Industrial Relations Act. Cap.
- The employer shall afford to any apprentice employed by him under this scheme facilities for attending during the period of apprenticeship such classes of instruction as the Minister may by order determine. Such classes shall not take up more than an average of eight hours per week, and if such classes are held during ordinary working hours the hours so spent shall be reckoned as hours of employment for the purposes of the payment of wages. Classes of instruction. Amended by: G.N. 114 of 1953; G.N. 210 of
- The apprentice shall be bound to attend all classes determined as aforesaid. Should he fail so to attend 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 day or part thereof of default.
- Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every calendar week.
- 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: Periods of rest. Substituted by: L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 80 of
- Vacation leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- Substituted by: L.N. 77 of 1970; L.N. 86 of
- 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. 13.
(1)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 Sick leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of 1969. Cap. 318. 4 [ S.L.594.02 BESPOKE TAILORING INDUSTRY SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 2 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 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. Injury leave. Added by: L.N. 80 of
- Cap.
- 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.