Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion

Ms Maeve McElwee:

Again, I believe it is a company law issue regarding the preferential treatment of creditors. That is a separate matter. In terms of the industrial relations framework that allows for collective agreements to be put in place, if we are to put those on a statutory footing, which I understand is what the Bill is trying to achieve, the challenge is one is making industrial relations, a piece of voluntarist legislation in a voluntarist industrial relations-----