Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
General Scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion
Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The International Transport Workers Federation put forward a position on the current system. In cases where a visa is tied to a particular employer, it can in many cases leave the workers in an exploitive situation. As way of rectifying that, what does ICTU think of sectoral permits as a solution?
The Migrants Rights Centre showed that 80% of exploitation cases involved migrant workers who had employment permits. The majority of those cases were where they were tied to a particular employer. I would imagine for many of them the information was not freely available. Does Dr. Rigney think sectoral permits would be a way of-----
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