489 / 736
SUMMARY
Group
No. of Time Units
(1)
22
(2)
25
Time cost factor per unit
s. d.
12/2
6/1
Time value
£13
5 10
7 12
1
£20 17 11
Schedule 2 factors (consider
complexity, skill, documents,
place, value and importance)
FEE
TO
BE
CHARGED
DISBURSEMENTS
TOTAL BILL
£32
0
0
31 10
0
£63 10
0
INDUSTRIAL, RELATIONS ACT, 1969
RIGHTS COMMISSIONERS
Explanatory Memorandum
(b) a dispute involving persons who have
not access to the Labour Court for the
purpose of a trade dispute;
(c) a dispute in relation to which the Labour
Court has already made a Recommenda
tion.
1.
There
are
at
present
two Rights
Commissioners, namely—Mr. Con Murphy, 8
Sycamore Crescent, Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin,
and Mr. Scan O Ceallaigh, 173 Botanic Road,
Glasnevin, Dublin, who have wide experience in
the field of worker-management relations.
2. The function of a Rights Commissioner is
to investigate a trade dispute referred to him by
a party to the dispute. The dispute may either
be in progress, or it may be feared that a dispute
will develop from the particular point at issue
between the parties.
3.
It
is expected
that
the type of dispute
which will be referred to a Rights Commissioner
will be one from a right claimed by a worker
under a custom or practice, or perhaps stemming
from an agreement including such matters as
discipline, dismissals, demarcation or transfer.
4. A Rights Commissioner will investigate a
dispute unless a party to the dispute notifies the
Commissioner, in writing, that he objects to the
dispute being
investigated
by
a Rights
Commissioner.
5. A Rights Commissioner is not empowered
to investigate a dispute under any of the following
headings : —
(a) a dispute connected with rates of pay,
hours or
time of work, or
annual
holidays of, a body of workers;
6. An investigation by a Rights Commissioner
will be conducted in private.
7. When
a
investigated
a
Recommendation
on the merits of
at his discretion,
without a formal
Rights
Commissioner
has
dispute,
he will make
a
to the parties giving his opinion
the dispute. He may, however,
endeavour to settle the dispute
Recommendation.
8. Where a Rights Commissioner has made
a Recommendation in relation to a dispute, a
party to the dispute may appeal to the Labour
Court against
the Recommendation and
the
parties
to
the dispute will be bound by the
decision of the Labour Court on the appeal,
which will be heard in private.
9. The Labour Court will
not
investigate a
dispute
in relation
to which
a Rights
Commissioner has made a Recommendation,
except by way
of
appeal
against
the Re
commendation.
10.
Parties to a dispute who wish to be put in
touch with a Rights Commisioner may contact
the Department of Labour, Industrial Relations
Section, Mespil Road, Dublin, Telephone 65861,
extension 178.
11. The services of the Rights Commissioners
will be available after 18 March 1970.
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