Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

This too is a technical amendment to section 9 of the Bill, as passed by the Dáil, and it seeks to ensure that for purposes only of equal treatment of working and employment conditions for agency workers that are part-time employees, it is the provisions of this legislation and not that of part-time legislation that applies. In effect, this means that whereas in part-time legislation, the appropriate comparator established for an agency worker is another agency worker that is superseded by this legislation which takes as the appropriate comparator another directly recruited employee.

Seanad amendment agreed to.

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