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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: We do not want to stifle that flexibility either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: The requirement for 300 hours in a core subject was mentioned. Is there parity in subjects that might be similar that would count towards that? If I was a teacher of construction and was able to teach graphics or metalwork does that go towards the 300 hours as there are similar traits in the subjects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Subjects like English and history and economics would have similar threads, I would assume.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I understand that they see hardship cases in their offices because the people who do not have problems do not approach them. In my experience the majority of employers are good and work flexibly. I have worked in the hospitality industry for years and any of my peers who worked in that industry had nothing but good things to say about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Somebody actually works one hour a week. Would somebody really do that if it was offered to him or her?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Does Mr. Waugh have a specific example of someone who has been offered one hour a week and taken up the offer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: One can understand a figure of eight or even six hours because that would be a night shift or a shift in a bar.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: It would be interesting to have it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Would it not be for a trial period, for perhaps one or two weeks, to see how a person got on before he or she was offered a job?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: When I did it, I was offered an hour here and there to cut my teeth. Then I would be offered eight hours and perhaps more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: There are also split shifts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: When I managed bars, I used to manage the rosters and could see when I might be able to work such as on a Thursday from 6 p.m until close or on a Saturday from 8 p.m. to close. I would be as flexible as I could be, but do the delegates believe the banded hours provisions would stifle this flexibility? A lot of students look for it and often want to work different nights from one week to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Is that because there has been a change in culture?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Can Dr. Bobek see it switching back again as the economy improves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: I do not want to be back here in two years' time looking for flexibility again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: I have a question about students. I have come across an issue on college grants and the amount of work done. Will banded hour contracts and the fact there has to be specific times affect people's grants? The witness should correct me if I am wrong because I am just trying to remember it off the top of my head. The issue concerns seasonal work and grants. If a student works outside...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Will this have any effect on it because if someone is in a banded hour contract, which has to be specific, he or she will be working outside of seasonal times?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: Seasonal work is three months in the summer, two weeks at Easter and two weeks at Christmas. That is how it is constituted for the purposes of the grant. Six months is longer than that so would it impede students getting their grants? That is the question I am asking. In that case, they would have to fulfil the contract whereas now they have the flexibility to clock in and clock out. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)
Tom Neville: That is because they have worked so many hours and have worked outside the season.