Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion

Dr. Sharon McGuinness:

As I said, we use an online process. The administrative burden is not solely somebody entering data on a sheet of paper or sending them into us; it is in addition to that. Every case of Covid has to be looked at in the context of it being attributable to a workplace. Even if there is an amendment, as we have discussed, the reality is that it still has to be attributable to work. The employer needs to be assured, therefore, and perhaps take the time to assess, whether an employee contracted Covid in the workplace as part of his or her work activity rather than contracting it outside of work and bringing it in. That is probably where the bulk of the administrative challenges lie for employers.

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