National Minimum Wage Act 2000

Contents

1. Art. 1 Short title and commencement.
2. Art. 2 Interpretation.
3. Art. 3 Regulations.
4. Art. 4 Laying of orders and regulations before Houses of Oireachtas.
5. Art. 5 Non-application of Act.
6. Art. 6 Expenses of Minister.
7. Art. 7 Provisions in agreement or legislation to pay less than national minimum hourly rate of pay are void.
8. Art. 8 Working hours of employee for pay reference period.
9. Art. 9 Certain employees to provide record of working hours to employer.
10. Art. 10 Pay reference period.
11. Art. 10A Establishment of Low Pay Commission
12. Art. 10B Duty of Commission
13. Art. 10C Functions of Commission
14. Art. 10CA Designation of consultative body and competent authority
15. Art. 10D National minimum hourly rate of pay
16. Art. 10E Funding and resources
17. Art. 11 National minimum hourly rate of pay
18. Art. 12 National economic agreement recommending national minimum hourly rate of pay.
19. Art. 13 Labour Court may recommend national minimum hourly rate of pay where no national economic agreement.
20. Art. 14 Entitlement to minimum hourly rate of pay.
21. Art. 15 Prescription of percentages of hourly rates of pay
22. Art. 16 Trainee rates.
23. Art. 17 Pro-rata entitlement to minimum hourly rate of pay for less than full hour.
24. Art. 18 Calculations for purpose of this Part.
25. Art. 19 Reckonable and non-reckonable pay components in calculating average hourly rate of pay.
26. Art. 20 Method of calculating employee’s average hourly rate of pay.
27. Art. 21 Payment of amount owed to employee on termination of employment.
28. Art. 22 Records.
29. Art. 23 Employee entitled to statement of average hourly rate of pay for pay reference period.
30. Art. 24 Disputes about entitlement to minimum hourly rate of pay.
31. Art. 25 Prohibition of reduction in hours of work of an employee without a concomitant reduction in duties or amount of work.
32. Art. 26 Decision of adjudication officer under section 41 of Workplace Relations Act 2015
33. Art. 27 Appeal against rights commissioner’s decision.
34. Art. 28 Power of Labour Court in relation to evidence.
35. Art. 29 Decision of Labour Court on appeal from decision referred to in section 26
36. Art. 30 Referral or appeal to High Court on question of law.
37. Art. 31 Referral of decision of rights commissioner to Labour Court for determination.
38. Art. 32 Enforcement of determination of Labour Court.
39. Art. 33 Inspectors and their powers.
40. Art. 34 Investigation of allegation or matter by inspector.
41. Art. 35 Offence to refuse or fail to pay minimum hourly rate of pay.
42. Art. 36 Prohibition of victimisation of employee by employer.
43. Art. 37 Penalties and proceedings.
44. Art. 38 Defence for employer in proceedings.
45. Art. 39 Civil proceedings.
46. Art. 40 Employee’s entitlements not affected by conditions of contract of employment contravening certain Acts.
47. Art. 41 Employer in financial difficulty.
48. Art. 42 Act not to derogate from certain provisions of or under Industrial Relations Acts, 1946 to 1990.
49. Art. 43 Repercussive claims.
50. Art. 44 Amendment of section 3 of Terms of Employment (Information) Act, 1994.
51. Art. 45 Amendment of section 39 of Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997.
52. Art. 46 Change of ownership of business.
53. Art. 47 Extension of Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) Act, 1984.
54. Art. 48 Service of documents.
55. Art. 49 Provisions relating to winding-up and bankruptcy.
56. Art. 50 Recovery of money due to employee.