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Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

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

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat. Tá brón orm go raibh mé beagáinín déanach. Bhí Bille eile agam thuas sa Dáil. I suppose the Minister of State will be aware and sympathetic that one of the great problems for workers is enforcement and compliance. It has been one of the massive difficulties until now, even during the period of this Government. All...

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

Peadar Tóibín: In good employment law, there should be a natural equilibrium which allows for workers and employers to resolve their differences in an efficient, fair and open manner. That negates the necessity for massive State machinery to be called in to fix the problems. Often if problems are not nipped in the bud when they arise, they become very difficult, as people become entrenched and the courts...

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

Peadar Tóibín: I will not labour the issue. While State agencies have worked on many occasions, they have also failed employees on many occasions. A solution would be to try to fix matters before they reached the State agencies. There will not be a meeting of minds on this issue. However, I welcome the thrust of the legislation and hope it is enacted as soon as possible. I also welcome amendment No. 22...

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

Peadar Tóibín: On Report Stage I may table an amendment to expand the definition to include former workers in a company.

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

Peadar Tóibín: Yes, in terms of definitions.

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

Peadar Tóibín: Again, I may try to expand the section on Report Stage by way of an amendment to include retired and former workers as part of an employment agreement.

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

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 4:In page 8, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(6) An employer may subsequently apply to the Court to become party to the agreement in its application to any worker or workers to whom it applies.”. The amendment does exactly what it says on the tin. It seeks to specify that an employer may subsequently apply to a court to become party to an...

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

Peadar Tóibín: Why would it have to depend on an existing party making the application?

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...