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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Are there any further questions? I thank the witnesses for coming to engage with the committee today. It was very worthwhile. I propose that we suspend to allow our next guests to take their seats.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: I welcome Ms Patricia King, General Secretary, and Mr. Liam Berney, Industrial Officer of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU. I also welcome Mr. John Douglas, General Secretary of the Mandate Trade Union. I also welcome Mr. Paul Bell, Health Division Organiser, and Ms Ethel Buckley, Services Division Organiser from the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union, SIPTU. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Ms King and call Mr. Paul Bell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Does Ms King think that the six months is sufficient?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Does she think it needs to be longer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Dr. Desmond Ryan from the school of law at Trinity College Dublin attended one of our meetings. He made the same point about there being a gap in the Bill as regards unfair dismissals that needed to be addressed. If the period was six months, someone could be dismissed unfairly. I jotted down the point he made. This is something we might have to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Members will agree that he made that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Successfully.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: That the unions have reached successful agreements on banded hours contracts is an important point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Through no fault of the drafter, could the Bill have negative unintended consequences? Negative consequences have been pointed out to us. For example, a legal group told us that a worker employed by the State would not be covered because the definitions of "worker" and "employee" had been drawn from two-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: For the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: It is a play on words.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: We have had quite a few.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Is that 75% of the 35% mentioned by Ms King?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: The figure that was discussed at earlier meetings was 80,000 or 1%. Am I correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: We were told 80,000 may be affected.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Are the figures net or gross?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Ms King said 32% earn between €400 and €800.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)
Mary Butler: Ms King said the six month period could be extended to provide a proper pattern.