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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: While IBEC and other employer organisations have expressed concern that there would be potential for variation, my amendment would not involve or allow for any variation. It focuses on an application to become a party to an agreement.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: While I understand that offers flexibility, my amendment would involve flexibility without the same level of effort. I understand that if a variation was to be made, the parties to the original contract or agreement would have to be in the driving seat in its development.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If no variation was involved, the opportunity should be available to employers.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 7:In page 10, line 26, after “concerned” to insert the following:“and 3 months’ notice of this decision shall be given to the trade union by the Court of its decision after which an appeal maybe heard no later than 6 weeks after the decision has been made”. The cancellation of registration is discussed and defined in section 9. The...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been my experience that when an REA is no longer functioning, while it may not affect the contract of the individual who worked under the REA, we all know what happens in the workforce - other individuals can be employed and have different terms and conditions, and those terms and conditions can be more competitive from the employers’ perspective, and there can be displacement...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 8:In page 10, line 31, after “apply,” to insert “agency worker,”. The Minister of State will understand from his previous work the tenuous nature of work for agency workers. Historically their rights have not been defended robustly. There have been changes in the term of this Dáil to agency workers’ rights. This amendment aims...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Minister of State is fully confident that there is no chance that this sector of employees will be left out, I will not press the amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 9:In page 11, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:“(g) subsistence,”. It was felt that this section, the definition section, left out a right that workers had enjoyed previously, especially in the construction industry, where a worker who typically worked ten or 15 miles away from home might get a call from the boss to head to Kerry for three...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Standard travelling times are based on daily journeys. While country money is difficult to define for legislative purposes, it tended to apply to people who encountered radical changes to their travelling times. This is why I proposed to put it in the different category of subsistence.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 10:In page 13, after line 41, to insert the following:"(e) the percentage of workers in the identified economic sector earning two-thirds or less of median income; (f) the pervasiveness of part time and/or short hour contracts in the identified economic sector;” This amendment reflects an ongoing conversation I have had with the Minister of State, Deputy Nash....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is an important amendment. We should proof everything we do against low pay. The Department should not produce anything that is not equality-proofed in respect of pay and wages. If we do not include these factors, the court will be directed by the legislation to disregard the prevalence of low pay and precarious work. The level of unemployment and competitiveness will be the only...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I will press the amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Chairman wish me to speak to all of these amendments?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 13:In page 16, line 25, after "not" to insert "blacklist,". The Minister of State will be aware of blacklisting, which reared its ugly head in Great Britain recently. This practice involves a systematic surveillance of trade unionists who are simply active within the legal parameters of that country. They have been targeted and victimised by employers and companies...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I am getting the feeling that the Minister will not accept anything an Opposition Deputy might come up with because blacklisting is a new issue and is not covered anywhere else in legislation. It is a serious threat to workers and has been evident in other countries. It is carried out in a very professional and focused manner. Rather than us sitting here in six months or, God willing, two...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I reiterate that prevention is better than cure.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 14:In page 16, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:"(a) trade union membership or activity,".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 18:In page 17, line 9, to delete "or intimidation" and substitute ", intimidation or harassment".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 19:In page 17, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:"(5) The Minister may authorise other persons, including designated union officials, to carry out inspections and monitoring of Registered Employment Agreements, Registered Employment Orders and Employment Regulation Orders. (6) The Minister may make regulations providing access, for union officials, to the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 20:In page 17, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: "Union entitled to represent members' interests20. (1) A trade union, at the request of the employee, may represent the employee in relation to the employee’s rights and entitlements under a registered employment agreement and sectoral employment order. (2) A union is entitled to represent its...