WAITERS IN HOTELS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 4 [ S.L.594.03 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.03 WAITERS IN HOTELS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 4 7th November, 1952 GOVERNMENT NOTICE 524 of 1952, as amended by Government Notices 114 of 1953 and 212 of 1957, Act XLIV of 1965, and Legal Notices 32 of 1967, 119 of 1969, 47 and 77 of 1970, and 424 of 2007. 1. The title of this Scheme is the Waiters in Hotels Scheme Scheme No. 4. Citation. 2. 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. 3. This scheme shall apply to the occupation of waiter in hotels, which occupation is hereby designated as a calling within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act. Applicability. 4. 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 a standard of education at least equivalent to that of a person who has passed the Fifth Standard of the Primary Schools. Employment as an apprentice. Amended by: XLIV. 1965.4. 5. The employers engaging apprentices under this scheme shall undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn all matters of discipline and all routine of service of a waiter in a first class hotel, including: Learning routine of service. Cap. 594. (
- i)method of laying a table and ensuring that plates, glass and silver are clean and properly arranged; (
- ii)method of securing orders, obtaining delivery from the kitchen and proper presentation to clients; (iii) knowledge of different dishes; (
- iv)method of presentation of wines; (
- v)taking of orders in writing and making up and checking of bills. 6. The period of training shall be of four years divided into two stages, namely: (
- i)the first two years shall be devoted to the duties commonly known in the hotel trade as those of a "debarrasseur"; and (
- ii)the second two years shall be devoted to the duties commonly known in the hotel trade as those of "commis". Period of training. 2 [ S.L.594.03 Classes of instruction. Amended by: G.N. 114 of 1953; G.N. 212 of 1957. WAITERS IN HOTELS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 4 7. The employers shall afford to every apprentice employed by them under this scheme facilities for attending during the period of apprenticeship such classes of instruction as the Minister may by order determine, unless the employers make such arrangements for the further education of the apprentices as may appear to the Minister to be sufficient for allowing this requirement to be dispensed with. 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 there of of default. Exemption from certain provisions. 8. Apprentices employed under this scheme shall be exempted from the provisions of the Employment of Children (Regulation) Ordinance * but may not be employed for more than ten hours in any one day or, if they are under sixteen years of age, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. Wages. Substituted by: L.N. 32 of 1967; L.N. 119 of 1969. Amended by: L.N. 424 of 2007. 9. The wages to be paid to the apprentices in the calling to which this scheme applies shall be as follows: Hours of work. Substituted by: G.N. 212 of 1957; L.N. 32 of 1967; L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 47 of 1970. 10. The hours of work of apprentices employed under this scheme shall not exceed nine hours in any one day: Year First Second Third Fourth Wages per week €5.82 €8.85 €11.88 €14.91. 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 for at overtime rates: time and a half; (
- c)for all time worked on the weekly day of rest: 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. 11. Apprentices shall be granted one whole day or two twelve hour periods of rest in every calendar week such periods to end at noon or to begin at 2p.m. on any day of the week. *Repealed by the Education Act, Cap. 327. WAITERS IN HOTELS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 4 [ S.L.594.03 12. After completing the first six months of apprenticeship, apprentices shall be allowed in every calendar year (
- a)fifteen days holidays with pay on customary holidays or otherwise at the discretion of the employer; and 3 Vacation leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of 1969. Substituted by: L.N. 77 of 1970. (
- b)fifteen days vacation leave with pay to be taken on days to be agreed on with the employer: Provided that (
- a)when a customary holiday falls on a Sunday or any other day of rest for the establishment concerned, the entitlement for leave in respect of that day shall be lost and (
- b)leave may not be availed of on a day when the apprentice is 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: Sick leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of
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- 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.
- 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. Bereavement leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- In this scheme unless the context otherwise requires, "customary holiday" means any one of the following days: Customary holidays. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- Feast of the Circumcision Feast of the Epiphany Feast of St Paul’s Shipwreck Feast of St Joseph Good Friday Ascension Day Feast of St Joseph the Worker Feast of Corpus Christi Feast of St Peter and St Paul Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin National Day All Saints Day 1st January 6th January 10th February 19th March 1st May 29th June 15th August 8th September 21st September 1st November 4 [ S.L.594.03 WAITERS IN HOTELS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 4 Feast of the Immaculate Conception Christmas Day 8th December 25th December