asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce the number of Joint Labour Committees functioning under the auspices of the Labour Court and the number of workers in respect of which each Committee operates; and if these Joint Labour Committees have power to prescribe holidays and conditions of employment.
Written Answers. - Joint Labour Committees.
259.
There are at present twenty (20) Joint Labour Committees functioning under the auspices of the Labour Court.
The second column of the following table shows the estimated number of workers in respect of which each Committee operates—
|
Joint Labour Committee |
Estimated Number of Workers |
|
Aerated Waters and Wholesale |
|
|
Bottling |
1,800 |
|
Boot and Shoe Repairing |
1,000 |
|
Brush and Broom |
430 |
|
Button-making |
200 |
|
Creameries |
2,500 |
|
General Waste Materials Reclamation |
500 |
|
Handkerchief and Household Piece Goods |
350 |
|
Law Clerks |
3,000 |
|
Messengers (Cork City Area) |
500 |
|
Messengers (Dublin City and Dún Laoghaire) |
4,000 |
|
Messengers (Limerick City) |
300 |
|
Messengers (Waterford) |
150 |
|
Packing |
1,000 |
|
Paper Box |
1,500 |
|
Provender Milling |
1,500 |
|
Shirtmaking |
2,000 |
|
Sugar Confectionery and Food Preserving |
5,300 |
|
Tailoring |
5,000 |
|
Tobacco |
2,500 |
|
Women's Clothing and Millinery |
|
|
8,000 |
Section 43 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 empowers the Labour Court to make Employment Regulation Orders on the recommendation of Joint Labour Committees.
Section 42 of the same Act provides that a Joint Labour Committee may submit to the Court proposals for fixing minimum rates of remuneration and for regulating the conditions of employment of all or any of the workers in relation to whom the Committee operates. For the purposes of Section 42, conditions of employment have been regarded as including holidays.