Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed).

4:00 pm

Mr. Tim Fenn:

Yes. I can double-check that figure but we just saw it in passing today. It reflects the change in the way people do their work. If there is some belief that we, as employers and employers' representative organisations, spend our time being disparaging to any employment law that comes in, I can say that we do not. In fact, we seek at all times to ensure that the people who are employed in our industry are well served by their employers and by the relationships between the employer and the employee. It is our belief that the more an imposition is put in to the legislation, the more it damages the relationship between the employee and employer. By giving a certain amount of rights, as this legislation entails, it is only going to damage the relationship between employers and employees.

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