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- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Amendment No. 15 removes the requirement for an employee to provide a birth certificate or certificate of placement when applying for flexible working arrangements relating to the care of a child. Under what mechanism is the Minister proposing that an employee would, in essence, have to prove that a child is theirs? While I disagree with the Minister on the requirement to provide medical...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: The Bill is suggesting it, not me. The Bill is suggesting that the person would have to provide certain information. My question relates to what would happen in a situation where, for example, an elderly parent refused to share the information but where the employee still needed leave to care for him or her.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Because of the way the Bill is written, however, the employer will be able to say it is going by the Bill and that, therefore, the employee cannot take leave.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: That is a convoluted way for someone to get leave to care for somebody. That is what my amendment seeks to address, so I will definitely press it.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: In the event someone cannot access his or her birth certificate, what would happen where the employee has to provide a birth certificate of his or her child to prove the child is the employee's? If the employee is seeking leave and has to provide the birth certificate of the child he or she needs to care for, and if he or she cannot access the birth certificate, what happens?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: If that is the case, perhaps the provision needs to be removed whereby the person would have to provide the birth certificate and prove that the child is that person's.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Does this relate to the fear that somebody would pretend to have a child who is not theirs?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: It is about proving the child's age in case somebody lied about his or her age.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: We will come to the age requirements later because they exclude older children from needing care. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: The suggestion is that after that age, they will not need care.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: When we look at the age issue, we will revisit the idea of excluding older children.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: In the case, perhaps the Bill does not need to suggest the person has to provide the medical information if that is not necessary. As it has been written, it could be interpreted by an employee as requiring that information to be provided.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: If the Minister is open to it instead being an affidavit, would it be okay to remove that?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Health.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Does the Minister see how this puts barriers in the way of people trying to seek this leave? If, for example, the elderly parent being cared for does not want to share his or her information, the person has to go through this process the Minister outlined instead of it being included in the Bill. The same is true of proving a child is the person's child and proving his or her age. The...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: While I welcome any amendment that introduces specific domestic violence leave, the manner in which it is happening does a deep disservice to those it will impact. The first sight any Opposition Deputy had of the Government's proposal was on Thursday. Therefore, it was almost impossible to suggest all of the amendments that might be needed at this Stage. In essence, the Minister's proposed...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 9: In page 8, line 22, to delete “12 years” and substitute “18 years”. The three amendments in the group deal with the definition of a child in the Bill. The Government has proposed that flexible working arrangements to care for one's child can only be made up to the age of 12 years, or 16 years in the case of a child with a disability or...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: I reiterate that people will still have to care for their adolescent children. I will press the amendment.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: No, I will discuss the point the Minister made about disability when I move a later amendment.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 10: In page 8, line 26, to delete “12 years” and substitute “18 years”.