Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I think perhaps we will have some employment legislation coming through in this session to deal with some issues the Deputy will be familiar with on the Zalewski judgment. Perhaps there is an opportunity to make an amendment to employment law in the coming months or this year to make sure employees are entitled to a copy of any agreement they have signed. I do not see who in the House could be against that.
In response to the question on the national economic recovery plan, there will be sections both on youth unemployment also a section on gender equality and how that must be part of the economic recovery as well because there has probably been a widening of gender inequality in an economic sense during the pandemic.