Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed)

4:00 pm

Photo of Tom NevilleTom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The timing did not work. I apologise for that. It is not as if I was not interested in what the witnesses were saying. I will be watching this session back later on this evening.

I was a casual employee for years in the bar trade. I have worked in bars, supermarkets, etc. Oftentimes, I worked two or three jobs. I could get ten hours in one place and 12 hours somewhere else. It may have been across the same business unit, such as two or three different bars owned by the one bar owner or whatever. What kind of implication would this legislation have for the flexibility of workers who might have ten hours in one place and are trying to get four to seven hours somewhere else? Can the witnesses see any deficiencies around that or any obstacles for somebody trying to do that?

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