Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Last week after the Labour Party left office, IBEC strongly refuted the need to change employment law. Does the Government agree with the position taken by the workers or IBEC? This is a simple question. On whose side does the Government stand? After five years of reform to employment and collective bargaining laws inspired by the Labour Party in office, I am horrified to see that the further enhancement of employment legislation in respect of workers barely gets a mention in the programme for Government. If there is a chapter or two or three pages that I have missed, could someone point them out to me? They are not there. As a society, we have problems around-----

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