Pat Casey (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Workers' rights are protected in primary legislation and every employer must comply with that legislation. It is not true, therefore, that workers have no rights in the workplace. In all my time as an employer, I have tried to do the best by my employees. I used the joint labour committee, JLC, arrangements for numerous years, until the collapse of those arrangements. I actually found it quite useful for hotels outside Dublin to use the JLC process. However, there is now primary legislation protecting employees' rights. It is wrong to say that there is no such protection in place.