Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019
Ms Fiona Ward:
What I can say is that the remuneration threshold for those operatives was set and agreed in consultation with the economic migration interdepartmental group, which, as I said, is a cross-government, whole-of-government approach to management and oversight of the employment permit occupations. It was done through the auspices of the review and we consulted with the Low Pay Commission at the time. I know the committee previously recommended that the Labour Court would have a role in that but it is not actually a role for the Labour Court, in that setting wages is not a role for the Labour Court. There are what we call sectoral employment orders and that might be a mechanism that could be used. However, we consulted our colleagues on the Labour Court and that is a matter for them.
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