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National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: Section 6 inserts a new section 10D in the National Minimum Wage Act and provides that the Minister shall, within three months of receiving a recommendation from the commission, decide whether to accept, reject or vary the recommendations of the commission for stated reasons. The provision for the Minister to make a decision on the commission’s recommendation within three months is...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: Having considered the proposed amendments, I consider that they are not necessary. Amendment No. 25 provides for a prohibition or restriction on charges or deductions from the national minimum hourly rate of pay. The Payment of Wages Act already provides a redress mechanism for unlawful deductions from wages. Section 5(1) of that Act allows an employer to make deductions required or...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: Amendment No. 19 proposes that as part of its functions the commission will be required to undertake a number of specific tasks; for example, monitoring the incidence of low pay by examining the prevalence of pay at or below two thirds of median earnings, key patterns in paid and unpaid open market internships and the effectiveness of existing policies to enforce the national minimum wage....

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 11:In page 4, line 29, to delete “15 July of the year” and substitute “the third Tuesday falling in July in the year”.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: There is no doubt that after a period of serious recession in the country and internationally wages had declined, but they are on the way back up. We can consider various respected surveys from the likes of IBEC or Industrial Relations Newsand see that there is considerable wage growth being experienced at the moment.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: The Deputy might have a particular view on the organisation but I would not question the veracity of its research.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: We have separate views on the national employers' body and that is fine. The Deputy is entitled to the opinion but I am happy to accept the veracity of the research it undertakes as a serious body, regardless of where Deputy Boyd Barrett might stand. Employers create jobs and IBEC anticipates pay awards of at least 2% in the majority of companies this year, which is to be welcomed. The...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I would not like to be paying water charges in the UK.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: The National Minimum Wage Commission recommended it in 2000.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: It is what is in the document, but the reality is different. I am not aware it is the rate that is generally paid.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: No.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: It is in the National Minimum Wage Act 2000. It is a provision rarely, if ever, used.

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I appreciate what the Deputy has said, and for reasons the National Minimum Wage Commission considered in 2000 when the Act was introduced, the view was taken that what it wanted to do was encourage young people to remain in training and education and not move out of it into the workforce. This was the consideration of the time. I stand to be corrected, and I do not want to mislead the...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to point out to Deputy Boyd Barrett that wages are increasing across the economy, though not perhaps at a rate that would satisfy him and his colleagues. After years of extreme difficulty in this country, that development illustrates how far we have come. We have a way to go before we reach a point where everybody can share in the accelerating economic recovery. There is no...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I thank the contributors for the remarks they made. They are making a strong case for the establishment of an institutional framework like the Low Pay Commission and for the collective bargaining legislation I am introducing, the re-establishment of REAs and sectoral employment orders and the work I intend to carry out on zero-hour and low-hour contracts. We are all at one on that. We may...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 3: "PART 1 PRELIMINARY AND GENERALShort title, collective citation and construction. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015.(2) This Act (other thanPart 3) and the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 may be cited together as the National Minimum Wage Acts 2000 and 2015 and shall be construed together as one Act.".Amendments Nos....

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 4:In page 3, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:"Repeals 2.Sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Principal Act are repealed.".

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: As I did not have an opportunity to respond to remarks made on the motion, I should point out that I find it unfortunate that the amendments had to be presented in this manner. This has been done for reasons that are beyond my control and I fully accept that it is an imperfect way of doing business that should not become de rigueur. This is complex legislation. We are in the business of...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, line 8, after “wage;” to insert the following: “to make provision for the purposes of the operation of the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and, for that purpose, to amend that enactment and certain other enactments;”.This amendment is required to amend the Long Title of the Bill to reflect the amendments to the Workplace Relations...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Instruction to Committee (9 Jul 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 177, Standing Order 131 is modified to permit an instruction to the Committee to which the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 may be recommitted in respect of certain amendments, for which it has power to make provision in the Bill in relation to:(a) the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and employment rights and equality enactments, which...