Results 541-560 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher

Job Losses. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: This is an integral part of the EU. With regard to immigrants to this country, employers are obliged to comply with employment law. Every employee is entitled to a minimum wage. Where there are employment regulation orders, EROs, or registered employment agreements, REAs, the employer is obliged to pay the rate that is struck and lodged before the Labour Court. If there is exploitation,...

Job Losses. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: An investigation is not needed; what is needed is action, and there will be plenty of that from this side of the House.

Public Sector Reform. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The Deputy is the counter-balance.

Business Regulation. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: They are used in answer to parliamentary questions.

Employment Rights Authority. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 and 138 together. The Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008 is designed to give effect to shared commitments in Part 2 of the ten year framework social partnership agreement, Towards 2016, to greatly increase public confidence in the system of employment law compliance. The establishment of a new, statutory office to secure better compliance with employment...

Employment Rights Authority. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Part 2 of the Bill provides for the establishing of the National Employment Rights Authority. That was the Part of the Bill that was published and presented to the House on 13 March 2008. It is complex legislation. We live in an era where social partnership is the bedrock within which much of the discussions take place. There were further discussions in that context in the interim...

Employment Rights Authority. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The reason the Bill was published was because a commitment was given in Towards 2016 to publish a Bill and to set up the National Employment Rights Authority on a statutory footing. The most important point to be made is that NERA is operating and has almost a complete complement of labour inspectors. It is enforcing employment rights compliance law which is welcome. It has collected...

Employment Rights Authority. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: We will have it quite soon. We are trying to ensure when the Bill is published that it is not rushed with amendments railroaded through the House. We want to have a genuine discussion on it. We are trying to get the Bill right in the first instance, to have broad agreement from the social partners and a good debate in the House. It is very complex but the Government is committed not only...

Employment Rights Authority. (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The purpose of Part 2 of the Bill, as published, was to provide for the establishment of the National Employment Rights Authority on a statutory footing. The employment law is already in place. Employers must comply with the employment law as it exists. This does not amend the employment law which exists in the context of minimum wage, holiday entitlements, EROs and registered employment...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Trade unions who hold a negotiating licence are free to engage in collective bargaining on wages and conditions of employment. Ireland's system of industrial relations is based on a voluntary approach with terms and conditions of employment being determined in the main by a process of voluntary collective bargaining between the parties, without the intervention of the State. The collective...

Written Answers — Workplace Accidents: Workplace Accidents (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 136, 141 and 159 together. The number of deaths recorded in workplace accidents during 2007 was 67 compared to 51 in 2006 with a considerable amount of this increase being accounted for by a number of fishing accidents. Of the 2007 total, 18 occurred in the construction sector. This was an increase of 5 fatal accidents on the 2006 figure. The construction...

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The number of employment rights inspections/visits/calls undertaken by the Inspection Services of the National Employment Rights Authority in 2008 to date is 21,711. During the same period in 2007 some 7,189 inspections/visits/calls were undertaken. Of the 21,711 inspections/visits/calls to date in 2008, breaches were detected in 3,502 cases. In the same period in 2007 breaches were...

Written Answers — Statutory Redundancies: Statutory Redundancies (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The table of figures below shows the actual number of employees who were paid statutory redundancy lump sums on a year by year basis from January 2002 to end August 2008. This does not reflect those who lost their jobs having less than two years service in an employment as this does not qualify for payment under the Redundancy Acts. My Department carried out an analysis last year in which...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Data from the CSO quarterly industrial survey shows that average industrial earnings per hour for male industrial workers on adult rates in June 2007 was €16.62. For female industrial workers the average rate was €12.73. From the CSO National Employment Survey for October 2006, average hourly earnings were €20.50 for males and €17.67 for females. These latter figures cover the...

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: In accordance with commitments given under Towards 2016, the Social Partnership Agreement, the number of Inspectors was scheduled to increase from 31 to 90. Competitions were held in 2007 for the recruitment of the additional fifty-nine Inspectors and, fifty-nine inspectors have been assigned to NERA from these competitions. All new inspectors have completed the NERA Inspection Services...

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The number of calls/visits/inspections carried out in relation to the National Minimum Wage Act, 2000 during which breaches of the Act were detected and the number of prosecutions initiated is as follows: in 2006: 2,002 calls/visits/inspections were undertaken; in 104 cases breaches were detected and in one case a prosecution was initiated. in 2007: 1,942 calls/visits/inspections were...

Written Answers — Social Partnership Agreements: Social Partnership Agreements (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the draft Transitional Agreement reached between Government and the Social Partners on a successor to the first module of Towards 2016. The draft Agreement will now be considered by the parties with a view to ratification and it is my hope that the Agreement will be ratified by all sides. The draft Agreement provides for a number of commitments, including through legislation...

Written Answers — Employment Regulation Orders: Employment Regulation Orders (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: In quashing the Employment Regulation Order made by the Labour Court relating to minimum remuneration of workers in the Hotels Sector on 7 February last, the High Court ordered that the matter be remitted to the Hotels Joint Labour Committee. As the Deputy may be aware, the Hotels Joint Labour Committee met in March 2008 and a new Employment Regulation Order was subsequently made for the...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I understand that in the last 2 years the Health and Safety Authority has inspected the Haulbowline site on 4 occasions and that construction work at the site came within the ambit of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations, 2006. I understand that the Authority advised Cork County Council and its appointed consultants on the nature of monitoring to be conducted at...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Authority: Health and Safety Authority (24 Sep 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to inform the Deputy that I have no such plans at this time. Question No. 206 answered with Question No. 134.