I move:—
That Dáil Eireann approves of the convention for the regulation of hours of work in automatic sheet-glass works adopted by the International Labour Conference at its Eighteenth Session, a copy of which was laid on the Table of the Dáil on the 3rd May, 1935, and recommends the Government to take the necessary steps for its ratification.
The convention applies to persons who work in successive shifts in necessarily continuous operations in the works in which sheet-glass is manufactured by automatic machines. Such persons must, under the convention, be employed under a system providing for at least four shifts of a maximum of eight hours a shift, 42 hours a week, with certain exceptions. The terms of the convention are in accordance with the regulations made under the Conditions of Employment Act, after consultation with the representatives of the employers and workers concerned in the manufacture of sheet-glass by automatic machines in this country. Accordingly, the ratification of the convention will involve no change in our law, and the regulations appear to provide adequately for implementing the provisions of the convention. I accordingly ask the Dáil to agree to the ratification of the convention.
