No. 171/1947:

SUGAR CONFECTIONERY AND FOOD PRESERVING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER, 1947.

SUGAR CONFECTIONERY AND FOOD PRESERVING JOINT LABOUR COMMITTEE EMPLOYMENT REGULATION ORDER, 1947.

THE LABOUR COURT.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT, 1946 .

SUBMISSION having been made to the Labour Court by the Sugar Confectionery and Food Preserving Joint Labour Committee of the proposals set out in the Schedule hereto for fixing minimum rates of remuneration to be paid to, and regulating the conditions of employment of, workers in relation to whom the Committee operates thereby amending the Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce dated the 5th day of March, 1946, confirming the variation of Minimum Rates of Wages for Male and Female workers in the Sugar Confectionery and Food Preserving Trade, and made under the provisions of the Trade Boards Acts, 1909 and 1918 which order is deemed to be an Employment Regulation Order by virtue of the provisions of Section 54 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 ,

THE LABOUR COURT, the provisions of section 43 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 , having been complied with, by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by the said section 43, HEREBY ORDERS as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Sugar Confectionery and Food Preserving Joint Labour Committee Employment Regulation Order, 1947.

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

3. The provisions of the Schedule hereto shall have effect as from the 11th day of April, 1947, and as from that date the said Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce dated the 5th day of March, 1946, shall be amended by the substitution of the provisions of sections I and II of Part I of the Schedule hereto for the provisions of sections I and II of Part I of the Schedule to the said Order and by the substitution of the provisions of Parts II and III of the Schedule hereto for the provisions of Part II of the Schedule to the said Order.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

GENERAL MINIMUM TIME-RATES, AND PIECE-WORK BASIS TIME-RATE FOR MALE WORKERS.

SECTION I—General Minimum Time-Rates.

In the case of a male worker under 22 years of age, the general minimum time-rates shall be payable subject to the condition that the worker is employed under conditions which afford a reasonable prospect of advancement to the general minimum time-rate of 2s. 0½d. per hour. Otherwise the general minimum time-rate payable shall be 1s. 11½d. per hour, irrespective of age.

SECTION II—Piece-Work Basis Time-Rate.

PART II.

GENERAL MINIMUM TIME-RATES AND PIECE-WORK BASIS TIME-RATE FOR FEMALE WORKERS.

SECTION I—GeneraL Minimum Time-Rates.

Female Learners.

SECTION II—Piece-Work Basis Time-Rate.

PART III.

ANNUAL HOLIDAYS.

Workers in relation to whom the Committee operates and who qualify for annual leave under section 10 of the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1939 , shall, in addition to the working week's whole holidays prescribed therein, be granted a further period of a working week's whole holidays, and the payment in respect of this further period shall be calculated in the same manner as that for the statutory period provided for by that Act.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Labour Court, this 3rd day of April, 1947.

(Signed) R. J. P. MORTISHED,

Chairman,

Labour Court.