John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 5:

In page 6, lines 17 and 18, to delete “not later than 5 days after” and substitute “before”.

These two amendments may seem quite simple but they are important. They amend the section that states that only after someone has taken up employment, five days after that, the employer must issue the contract to the employee. We want to amend that. The contract should be issued prior to the person starting employment.

There is no reason an employer cannot do that. It is a simple amendment that is not controversial and I hope it will be supported. It is deleting reference to "not later than five days after" the employee takes employment that the employer has to issue the contract and rather requiring the employer to issue it before the employee starts.