Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Matt ShanahanMatt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I might return to the issue of employers restructuring and re-organising in the context of remote working. Where an employer has agreed to accommodating remote working for an employee and, subsequently, has a need for sick cover or maternity leave cover, how would that be dealt with? If I have given someone a contract that allows him or her to work for home and I am now stuck for cover in the office, where normally I would be able to delegate someone to do that and where I want the person who is working at home to come back to the office, where do I stand as an employer?

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