Power to fix remuneration and holidays

(1) Subject to and in accordance with this section, any wages council shall have power to submit to the Minister proposals (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “wages regulation proposals”), (a) for fixing the remuneration to be paid, either generally or for any particular work, by their employers to all or any of the workers in relation to whom the council operates; (b) for requiring all or any such workers as aforesaid to be allowed holidays by their (2) The power to submit proposals for fixing remuneration shall include power to submit proposals for fixing holiday (3) Wages regulation proposals for requiring a worker to be allowed a holiday, (a) shall not be made unless both holiday remuneration in respect of the period of the holiday and remuneration other than holiday remuneration have been or are being fixed under this Part for that worker; (b) shall provide for the duration of the holiday being related to the duration of the period for which the worker has been employed or engaged to be employed by the employer who is to allow the holiday; and (c) subject as aforesaid, may make provision as to the times at which or the periods within 10 which and the circumstances in which the holiday shall be allowed. (4) Wages proposals for fixing remuneration may contain provisions as to the times at which that remuneration shall accrue and shall become payable and for securing that any such remuneration which has accrued due to a worker during his employment by an employer shall, in the event of his ceasing to be employed by that employer before he becomes entitled to be allowed a holiday by him, nevertheless become payable by the employer to the worker. (5) Before submitting any wages regulation proposals to the Minister, a wages council shall make such investigations as it thinks fit, and shall publish in such manner as shall be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act notice of the proposals, stating the place where copies of the proposals may be obtained and the period, which shall not be less than twenty- one days from the date of the publication of the notice, within which written representations with respect to the proposals may be sent to the council; and the council shall consider any written representations made to it within that period and shall make such further inquiries as it considers necessary, and shall submit the proposals together with its reasons there for to the Minister either without amendment or with such amendments as it thinks fit having regard to the representations. (6) Where the Minister receives any wages regulation proposals, he shall consider the proposals and may make an Order (hereinafter in this Act referred to as a “wages regulation order”) giving effect to the proposals without amendment or with such amendments as he thinks fit or giving effect to such other proposals as in his opinion ought to have been submitted by the council, and any such Order shall take effect as from the date specified in the Order, Provided that the Minister may, if he thinks fit, refer the proposals submitted back to the wages council and the wages council shall thereupon reconsider them having regard to any observations made by the Minister and then resubmit the proposals to the Minister either without amendment or with such amendments as it thinks fit having regard to those observations; and where proposals are so resubmitted the provisions in this subsection contained shall apply to the proposals resubmitted in like manner as they apply to the original proposals. (7) As soon as the Minister has made a wages regulation order, he shall give notice of the making thereof to the wages council and that wages council shall give such notice of the Order and the contents thereof as may be prescribed for the purpose of informing so far as practicable, all persons who will be thereby affected. (8) Any wages regulation proposals and any wages regulation order for giving effect thereto may make different provision for different cases, and may also contain provision for the amendment or revocation of previous wages regulation (9) No wages regulation order shall have effect so as to prejudice any rights as to remuneration or holidays conferred on any worker by or under any enactment other than this Act. (10) Remuneration (including holiday remuneration) fixed by a wages regulation order is hereinafter in this Act referred to as “statutory minimum remuneration”.