S.I. No. 354/1997:

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (HAIRDRESSING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1997

EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER (HAIRDRESSING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE), 1997

WHEREAS the Labour Court (hereinafter called "the Court"), pursuant to the provisions of Section 48 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1990 (hereinafter called "the Act"), made an Employment Regulation Order dated 1st February, 1996 ( S.I. No. 20 of 1996 ) (hereinafter called "the said Order"), fixing the statutory minimum remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee (hereinafter called "the Committee") operates;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted to the Court a proposal for revoking the said Order;

AND WHEREAS the Committee has also submitted to the Court the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for fixing the statutory minimum rates of remuneration and regulating the statutory conditions of employment of workers in relation to whom the Committee operates;

AND WHEREAS the provisions of Section 48 of the Act have been complied with;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Court in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 48 of the Act, hereby Orders as follows:

(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Regulation Order (Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee), 1997.

(2) Effect is hereby given to the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto.

(3) The provisions set out in the Schedule hereto shall have effect as from 1st September, 1997 and, as from that date, the said Order shall be revoked.

NOTE: Enquiries should be directed to the Secretary. Joint Labour Communities Section, The Labour Court. Tom Johnson House. Haddington Road, Dublin 4. (Telephone 016608444, Extension Nos. 301,303 and 304).

SCHEDULE

PART I

WORKERS TO WHOM THIS SCHEDULE APPLIES:

1. Workers employed in the areas known, until 1st January, 1994, as the County and County Borough of Dublin, the Borough of Dun Laoghaire and the Urban District of Bray, in a hairdressing undertaking, including hairdressers, apprentice hairdressers, beauticians and manicurists.

2. In this Schedule, "hairdressing undertaking" means an undertaking, or any part of an undertaking, which is wholly or mainly engaged in hairdressing, including operations incidental or ancillary thereto.

3. In this Schedule, "hairdressing" includes the following operations performed on hair growing on the head, face or neck of a male or female person, that is to say, lathering, shaving, cutting, singeing, shampooing, waving, setting, dressing, tinting, dyeing, bleaching or similar operations.

4. In this Schedule, "hairdresser" means a person who is employed on any of the operations of hairdressing set out herein and (a) who has completed the period of apprenticeship prescribed in Part III, Section I hereof or (b) who, in the opinion of the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee, has otherwise qualified as a hairdresser.

5. In this Schedule, "Apprentice" means a male or female worker who is employed on any of the operations of hairdressing set out herein and (a) who (i) has not completed the period of apprenticeship prescribed in Part III, Section I hereof and (ii) has received a certificate of registration as an apprentice from the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee or in respect of whom an application for such certificate has been made and has been duly acknowledged and is still under consideration, or (b) who, in the opinion of the Committee, has not otherwise qualified as a hairdresser.

6. In this Schedule, "Beautician" means "a worker who is wholly or mainly engaged in the process of beauty culture".

7. In this Schedule, "Manicurist" means " a worker who is wholly or mainly engaged in manicuring".

PART II

STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION AND CONDITIONS OF

EMPLOYMENT

SECTION I: RATES OF REMUNERATION

Payment of hairdressers, other than apprentices, shall consist of a basic wage plus commission on takings. Where a basic rate plus commission is paid, a record of each worker's takings shall be kept by the employer and shall be made available to the worker for the purpose of verifying the amount of commission due to him or her each week.

NOTE: "Part time workers on Unisex Hairdressing with an employer, prior to 13th July, 1992, will continue to be paid those rates, i.e. £112.92 (4 days) £94.85 (3 days) £85.76 (2 days) £32.14 (Saturday) £23.04 (Single day), until entering into a new Contract of Employment or the Unisex rates reach or go beyond these points".

For the purpose of the above, the term "takings" shall mean all takings other than those on sales of proprietary goods.

SECTION II: HOURS OF WORK

( a ) The weekly working hours shall be reduced by I hour per week to 39, effective from 1st January, 1991.

( b ) The normal number of hours to be worked on any day shall be 8 hours.

( c ) Overtime to be paid as follows:--

Weekly overtime to be paid at the rate of time-and-a-half to workers whose normal working week is 40 hours (39 hours from 1/1/91), for time worked in excess of 40 hours (39 hours from 1/1/91) in any week.

Daily overtime to be paid at the rate of time-and-a-half to workers whose normal working week is less than 40 hours (39 hours from 1/1/91), for time worked in excess of 8 hours in any day.

Sunday overtime to be paid at twice the minimum rate otherwise applicable i.e. double time.

SECTION III: ANNUAL HOLIDAYS

( a ) Those workers who do not have 20 days' paid leave shall be entitled to a total of 20 days' paid leave in the holiday year 1983/84 and thereafter. The qualifying periods for entitlement to these days shall be those provided for in the Holiday (Employees) Act, 1973.

The holiday entitlements of those who do not meet the qualifying conditions under the said Act will be those entitlements which are provided in the Worker Protection (Part-time Employees) Act, 1991.

( b ) Payment in respect of annual leave shall be calculated in accordance with Section 6 (3) of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 and Section 4 of the Worker Protection (Regular Part-time Employees) Act, 1991 .

( c ) Payment in respect of Public Holidays shall be in accordance with the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1973 .

SECTION IV: SERVICE PAY

Service Pay to apply as follows:

SECTION V: COMPASSIONATE LEAVE

Compassionate Leave shall apply as follows:

( a ) Three days for the death of a close relative, i.e. mother, father, sister, brother, wife, husband, son or daughter.

( b ) One day for the death of an aunt, uncle, parent-in-law, grandparent; where the deceased is a more distant relative, by agreement between employer and employee.

SECTION VI: SICK PAY SCHEME

( a ) Employee to notify employer of illness before 12 noon on first day of illness.

( b ) Medical certificate to be submitted by third day of illness and on a weekly basis thereafter.

( c ) An employee must have completed six months' employment in a hairdressing salon before qualifying for benefit.

( d ) No benefit to be paid for the first three days of illness.

( e ) All qualified personnel to receive £8 per week for fifteen weeks where the employee's income from other sources (i.e. Social Welfare, PRSI etc.) does not exceed normal basic pay rate. Pro-rata benefits to apply to apprentices as follows:

( f ) Contribution to scheme to be 10p per week for apprentices and 12p per week for qualified stylists.

PART III

CONDITIONS GOVERNING APPRENTICESHIP

SECTION I: PERIOD OF APPRENTICESHIP

The period of employment by way of apprenticeship shall be 4 years, commencing on the date on which the worker is first employed:

Provided that -

( a ) An employer may employ an apprentice on his or her first employment for a probationary period not exceeding one month without a certificate of Registration but, in the event of such apprentice being continued, thereafter, in employment, the probationary period shall be included in the period of apprenticeship.

( b ) An apprentice who transfers from a Salon covered by the Hairdressing (Cork Co. Borough) Joint Labour Committee to a salon covered by the Hairdressing (Dublin) Joint Labour Committee shall be entitled to recognition for the period of apprenticeship already served.

( c ) Where an apprentice is, through illness, continuously absent from employment for a period in excess of two months, the appropriate year of his or her employment by way of apprenticeship may be extended by a period equal to such excess period, at the discretion of the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee.

SECTION II: NUMBER OF APPRENTICES

( a ) Ladies' Hairdressing

The number of apprentices employed shall not exceed one apprentice to every one hairdresser employed.

( b ) Gentlemen's Hairdressing

The number of apprentices employed shall not exceed one apprentice to the first one or two hairdressers employed and, thereafter, one additional apprentice to every two hairdressers employed in excess of the first two.

SECTION III: REGISTRATION

( a ) An employer who wishes to employ a worker as an apprentice must apply to the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee for registration of the worker. Application must be made even though the worker was previously registered as an apprentice in the trade. The Committee shall, in due course, issue a certificate of Registration to the said employer.

( b ) The employer shall safely keep the Certificate of Registration and shall produce it, on request, to an Inspector duly appointed by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment under Part IV of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , or to the Committee. He shall also surrender it to the apprentice when leaving his employment and shall enter on it the date of termination of employment.

Given under the Official Seal of the Labour Court this 20th

day of August, 1997.

(Signed) EVELYN OWENS

CHAIRMAN

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Instrument fixes, with effect from 1st September, 1997, statutory minimum rates of remuneration and regulates statutory conditions of employment for workers employed in the Hairdressing Trade in the areas known, until 1st January, 1994, as the County and County Borough of Dublin, the Borough of Dun Laoghaire and the Urban District of Bray. It is made by the Labour Court on the recommendation of the Hairdressing Joint Labour Committee.