Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)

The issues around joint labour committees, JLCs, and employment regulation orders are contained in words in the programme for Government and the EU-IMF programme. Is it the intention of the Government to bring forward legislation in the House as was announced? Let us be clear about it. There is now a public controversy that goes deep into the hearts and households of thousands of families. Based on what the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, stated yesterday there is a real fear that he is about to cut the incomes of the lowest paid, including hundreds of thousands of people who depend on these types of unsociable hours and the Sunday hourly rate, arrangements which have been in place and which are legally binding.

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