NEON SIGN MAKERS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 5 [ S.L.594.04 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.04 NEON SIGN MAKERS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 5 21st December, 1952 GOVERNMENT NOTICE 554 of 1952, as amended by Government Notices 114 and 132 of 1953, and 213 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 2007. 1. The title of this Scheme is the Neon Sign Makers Scheme Scheme No. 5. Citation. 2. The meaning of words and expressions set out in the Employment and Training Services Act shall apply in this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires. Interpretation. Cap. 594. 3. This scheme shall apply to the calling of neon sign maker. 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 either completed the fourth year of a Secondary School or the full Trade School Course, and has completed a period of six months as a learner in the calling of neon sign maker. Employment as apprentice. Amended by: XLIV. 1965.4. Substituted by: L.N. 61 of 1977; L.N. 51 of 1978. 5. 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)glass treatment and blowing; cleaning, cutting, bending, welding, stretching, jointing, stemming and flat-bottoming; (
- b)cleaning, drying and powdering tubes; (
- c)preparation of electrodes; (
- d)exhausting, bombardment and filling of tubes; (
- e)testing tubes, masking electrodes and sections of tubes; (
- f)assembly, erection and maintenance of neon signs on site; (
- g)use, care and maintenance of high vacuum equipment, bench and hand torches. 6. The period of apprenticeship shall be of five and a half years: Provided that six months shall be deducted from the said period of five and a half years, up to a total deduction of not more than two years, in respect of each complete year of attendance by the prospective apprentice, at any electrical course in a Government Technical Day-School, as long as such attendance is certified to be satisfactory by the Director of the School concerned: Period of apprenticeship. Amended by: L.N. 119 of 1969. 2 [ S.L.594.04 NEON SIGN MAKERS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 5 Provided that in respect of contracts of apprenticeship entered into after the 1st day of January, 1970, for the words "five and one half years" wherever they occur in this article, there shall be substituted the words "five years". Wages. Substituted by: G.N. 132 of 1953; G.N. 213 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 1979. Amended by: L.N. 424 of 2007. 7. The wages payable to apprentices in the callings to which this scheme applies shall be as follows: Classes of instruction. Amended by: G.N. 213 of 1957; XLIV. 1965.4. 8. The employer shall afford to the apprentices facilities for attending during the term of apprenticeship such classes of instruction as the Minister responsible for labour may by order determine. Such classes shall not take up more than ten hours in any one week, and if such classes occur during ordinary working hours, the hours so spent shall be reckoned as hours of employment for the purposes of the payment of wages. Year First Second Third Fourth Fifth Wages per week €24.57 €29.23 €33.92 €38.60 €43.26. 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. Hours of work. Substituted by: L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 47 of 1970. 9.
(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: 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. Added by: L.N. 119 of 1969. Substituted by: L.N. 80 of 1979. 10. Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every calendar week. NEON SIGN MAKERS SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 5 11. [ S.L.594.04 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: 3 Vacation leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of 1969. Substituted by: L.N. 77 of 1970; L.N. 86 of 1977. 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. 12.
(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
- Cap.
- 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 "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. Customary holidays. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- Amended by: L.N. 124 of
- Substituted by: L.N. 61 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. Injury leave. Added by: L.N. 80 of
- Cap. 318.