Article 15 Payments which do not form part of an agricultural worker’s remuneration

(1)

The following allowances and payments do not form part of an agricultural worker’s remuneration—

(a)

a dog allowance of £11.18 per dog to be paid weekly where an agricultural worker is required by their employer to keep one or more dogs,

(b)

an on-call allowance of a sum which is equivalent to three times the hourly rate of the agricultural worker according to their grade. The on-call allowance is payable in respect of every period the agricultural worker is on-call. The period of an on-call arrangement must not exceed 24 hours,

(c)

a night work allowance of £2.12 for each hour of night work, and

(d)

a birth and adoption grant of £87.85 for each child.

(2)

In this article—

“birth and adoption grant” (“grant geni a mabwysiadu”) means a payment that an agricultural worker is entitled to receive from their employer on the birth of their child or upon the adoption of a child and is payable—
1. (a)
  
  where the agricultural worker has given their employer a copy of the child’s Birth Certificate or Adoption Order (naming the agricultural worker as the child’s parent or adoptive parent) within 3 months of the child’s birth or adoption, and
2. (b)
  
  in circumstances where both parents or adoptive parents are agricultural workers with the same employer, to each agricultural worker;
“night work” (“gwaith nos”) means work (apart from overtime hours) undertaken by an agricultural worker between 7 p.m. on one evening and 6 a.m. the following morning, but excluding the first two hours of work that an agricultural worker does in that period;
“on-call” (“ar alwad”) means a formal arrangement between the agricultural worker and their employer where an agricultural worker who is not at work agrees with their employer to be contactable by an agreed method and able to reach the place where they may be required to work within an agreed time.