Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Dermot Mulligan:
I talked about this earlier. This was about ensuring an employer responded fairly to the application and, when making a refusal, conducted itself fairly in relation to an application. There is also the matter of how to support the development of a right to request remote working without creating a right to have remote working. That is something we continue to grapple with and we are thinking about how we can do that. As I mentioned earlier, it is quite complicated and very tricky to do tat. That is why there was a focus initially on the procedural piece. The Tánaiste has asked us to look at that again to see how we can develop that so it is not merely procedural. We are doing that at the moment.
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