Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Briefly, many employees do not even have a contract of work. Many employees do not have guidelines such as those to which the Minister of State has alluded. In addition, if there is a folder containing all that information within the office of the employer, the very act of an employee demanding this information creates a tension that can mean an employer then starts to consider this person as a suspect employee, because he or she is creating a problem. How different would it be if those rights simply were on the wall of a canteen and were there for all to see? It would create a different context in which those rights were to be understood in that rather than individuals being obliged to step outside their normal behaviour to chase those rights, these rights literally would be the wallpaper to their experience within the workplace.

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