Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 10:

In page 4, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:

“ ‘code of practice’ means any code of practice for the time being standing approved in accordance with Part 4of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022;”.

These amendments introduce provisions for the development of statutory code of practice that will govern flexible and remote working requests. Employers will be required to have regard to the code when considering both flexible working and remote working requests. The code of practice will be developed by the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC. It is intended the code of practice will provide practical guidance to employers and employees throughout this process and the code will be developed in consultation with unions and employers. I am aware a code of practice-type approach was one that was heavily recommended in the pre-legislative process for the right to request remote work Bill. That process is now going to be used for both requests for remote working and requests for flexible working.

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