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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: Yes, that is our interpretation. They can do that after a six-month period. That certainly means they can keep doing that all the time. That would not reflect the reality of the hours they worked because they would be in the higher band all the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: Our legislation is geared to low-paid workers who are working. I accept what the Chairman says about students, who do not have continuous work. That is a reflection of the type of work they are doing. Based on the submissions received and the consultations we had with IBEC and ICTU, there was broad agreement from all sides that 18 months was an acceptable period to assess the reality of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: It is not written directly in the Bill itself, but it is the implication.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: We need to be very careful on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: We had-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: If employees feel they are entitled to extra hours under that Bill, they can do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: That is the reading we have taken. That is the reading the legal people have taken. Two professional lawyers, who appeared before the committee today, said the Bill was unconstitutional and would be hard to work out. These are the implications of the Bill. That is why it has taken us time to prepare the Bill. We are confident it will not be proven to be unconstitutional, unlike the Sinn...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: I think it is probably an unintended consequence. Maybe the Bill was rushed and was prepared with undue haste, resulting in these measures not being taken on board. The labour affairs section of the Department had to take on board the input from IBEC and ICTU as well as the UL study. We need to take all these into consideration when preparing employment legislation, which is complex. We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: We believe it is much better to have wider bands. It reflects the reality of the hours worked by employees better than having narrow bands. On the bands, we feel they need to be flexible. This came about as a result of our discussions with ICTU and IBEC. They are the main players in this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: These are the people who are representing -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: These are the people who are representing workers, they are also the people who are representing the employees. The bands that we have proposed are the bands that have been worked out and suggested in consultation with the main players. We have listened to everyone, we have taken submissions and looked at the UL study in regard to this. Once one has the employers and union representatives...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: On the use of Irish or English, when one puts something into legislation, the interpretation is there, it has to be part of what will be in the workplace.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: That is where the interpretation -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: Obviously Sinn Féin made a fatal mistake by preparing this Bill, which is totally flawed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: We have already had employment professionals here today talking about the possibility that Sinn Féin's Bill is unconstitutional. We are not the only one. These are experts who came in here today saying that. We want to be helpful in this. I would say that to the Senator. He raised this in the Chamber last year in a Private Member's Bill. We sent it here to the committee to be dealt...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: One can, of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: A lot of this is already in force in the workplace in companies. We do not believe it is necessary. On the legislation we are proposing, we are saying that if one wants to protect employees in their employment, that on the first day when they get a job, the employer has to provide five pieces of vital information which covers what the Sinn Féin Bill wants to put into the roster. These...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: That is more or less covered in what Senator Gavan is talking about in regard to putting notices up in Irish and English. Suppose there are people from 20 or 30 different countries, with different languages working for a company, which is very evident nowadays because a lot of people who work on the minimum wage are people from other nationalities. That can happen a lot. It would be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: There are times when these people are not working. These people cannot have the same rights if they are casual workers and they might only work two days in the week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)
Pat Breen: Is the Senator saying they should be paid for?