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- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Amendment No. 1 inserts an additional term into the interpretation section of the Bill. The term "excepted body" is standard in the Industrial Relations Acts. For the avoidance of doubt, the amendment clarifies that the term "excepted body" used in the Bill has the same meaning as in the Trade Union Act 1941. Amendment No. 21 is of a drafting and technical nature and provides for the...
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 are of a drafting and technical nature and do not result in any substantive change in the Bill. Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 are also of a drafting and technical nature and, equally, do not result in any substantive change in the Bill. Are we also discussing amendments Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive?
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Okay, I am sorry.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: As I said, are technical amendments. They do not result in any substantive change in the Bill.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: These amendments also are drafting and technical in nature and do not result in any substantive change in the Bill.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: This, too, is a technical amendment which does not result in a substantive change in the Bill.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: This is a technical amendment.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: This, too, is a technical amendment. I should explain to Senators the reason for this. This is complex legislation. Some 30 separate Acts are being co-ordinated in this new procedure, which is why a lot of technical amendments have emerged during the course of drafting from the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: This is a drafting and technical amendment.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Amendment No. 13 is not appropriate or necessary, as the issue of the address at which an employer or respondent is deemed to be ordinarily resident is dealt with comprehensively in the Bill by means of a standard provision in legislation which has stood the test of time. What Senator David Cullinane may be hoping to achieve may have more to do with distinguishing the legal entity from the...
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Amendment No. 14 is of a technical nature and does not result in any substantive change in the Bill.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Section 53 was inserted on Committee Stage in the Seanad. The section makes it an offence to fail to pay an award of compensation in circumstances where the court has made an order so directing the person concerned. The person guilty of an offence under section 53 shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Amendments Nos. 18 and 19 are of a drafting and technical nature. They make no substantive change to the section. The amendments simply highlight the existing division in Schedule 2 between the provisions of primary legislation, Part 1, that will be repealed and the provisions of secondary legislation, Part 2, which will be revoked on the enactment of the Bill.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: All of these amendments are of a drafting and technical nature and do not result in any substantive change to the Bill.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Amendments Nos. 23 and 24 to section 17 are of a drafting and technical nature and do not result in any substantive change in the Bill.
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Section 21 makes provision for the board of the workplace relations commission to prepare a strategy statement on behalf of the commission and to submit this statement to the Minister for approval. Subsection (4) provides that the Minister can approve the draft strategy statement as prepared by the board with or without modifications or refuse to approve the strategy statement. In the...
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: I thank Senators for the constructive spirit in which they have presented this amendment. Section 11(1)(a) states that one of the core functions of the workplace relations commission will be to "promote the improvement of workplace relations, and maintenance of good workplace relations", while section 11(1)(h) states that the commission shall "provide information to members of the public in...
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: The purpose of the legislation is to promote higher levels of compliance. We encountered a number of difficulties in this regard, including the long delays that obtain, the level of complexity in the system and the fact that the same issue could be pursued via different channels. As a result, neither worker nor employer knew where their obligations lay. This did not assist in the context...
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: Collective bargaining legislation is in preparation and will be passed before the expiry of this Government. It is at a very advanced stage. It will deal with cases where employers who refuse to recognise trade unions and fail to offer reasonable terms and conditions comparable with other areas, and will make it possible for trade unions to go to the Labour Court to get an adjudication that...
- Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Bruton: This amendment is of a technical and drafting nature and does not result in any substantive change to the Bill.