Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am interested in hearing more about objective justification. According to Ms Bolger, what is currently in place works in practice. If an employee wants to have a contract which reflects the actual hours he or she is working, for this to be dealt with through the objective justification process, would the matter become one for the Workplace Relations Commission? My concern in this regard is that in reality the employee would be in a very vulnerable situation having raised an issue with is or her employer. I was previously a trade union official. It takes up to three months to get a hearing at the Workplace Relations Commission. In terms of the imbalance of power in the interim, how would the employee be protected?

Can the witnesses make any suggestions about how to protect an employee in those circumstances?