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 spoke in my opening statement about the various grounds, on which we also had some discussion earlier. What I said was that we are looking fundamentally at the grounds to see how they can be changed. There have been a lot of divergent views, as Ms Maher said, but there is satisfaction about the way this is structured. We are looking at the grounds fundamentally to see how we can improve them. That is part of a wider review of the grounds for appeal to the WRC and how we can do this in a way that puts in place an effective framework to allow employees the right to request remote work but not necessarily the right to get remote work. That is quite complicated to do but it all-----