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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Nursing Staff Recruitment (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I thank Senator Burke for raising this issue. I am taking this matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, who is not available this afternoon due to Government business. I wish to advise the Senator that Department of Health officials met with the president and chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, last week to discuss a...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Nursing Staff Recruitment (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I thank Senator Colm Burke for his remarks on this important issue which all of us have encountered locally or in our constituencies, especially in areas that are coming under significant pressure in terms of demographic demand and access to health care facilities. The Senator is correct that the private nursing homes industry plays an important role, alongside the public service, in...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I am pleased to introduce the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015 for the consideration of the House. The Bill, in its totality, represents a significant step forward for workers and employers in providing clear, workable and constitutionally robust frameworks within which workers remuneration and conditions of employment can be discussed and determined. I am confident that the...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I believe that is on its way.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: Part 2 also provides for the making of sectoral employment orders, SEOs. The Labour Court may initiate a review of the pay and pension and sick pay entitlements of workers of a particular class, type or group in a particular sector and, if it deems it appropriate, make a relevant recommendation to the Minister. Such a review will be initiated at the request, separately or jointly, from...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I thank Senators for their contributions to this important debate. To respond to one of Senator Bradford's questions, the provisions we are discussing do represent a significant shift in or rebalancing of the industrial relations landscape in this country. What I mean by this is that the Bill addresses a major gap in the efficacy of our existing laws. There is a long-established right to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: An employee’s entitlement to annual leave is set out in section 19 of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. Section 19 transposed Article 7 of the original EU Working Time Directive (93/104/EC) – now consolidated by Directive 2003/88/EC. Article 7(2) of the Directive provides that the statutory minimum period of paid annual leave may not be replaced by an allowance in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: Based on the information available to me, it would appear that the employer of the workers concerned did not change as a result of the transactions at issue and the contracts of those workers remained in place. Redundancy pay and the other statutory entitlements of staff are being calculated by reference to the continuous nature of their employment by the same legal entity that is now the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Measures (30 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: The matters that have been in dispute at Dunnes Stores have revolved around a range of issues, including the introduction of banded hours contracts, individual and collective representational rights and a review of the use of temporary contracts. The matter has been before the Labour Court on a number of occasions. It is my opinion that engagement with the State's industrial relations...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 24:In page 30, after line 23, to insert the following:“Time limit in relation to trade dispute where retired worker is party to dispute44.The Act of 1990 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 26:"26A.(1)Notwithstanding any other provision of this or any other enactment, but subject to subsection (2), an adjudication officer or the Court...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 25:In page 30, after line 23, to insert the following:"Amendment of Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee Establishment Order 197645.The Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee Establishment Order 1976 (S.I. No. 198 of 1976) is amended by the substitution of—"AND WHEREAS by the said section 1 (amended by section 42of the Industrial Relations (Amendment)...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 17:In page 21, to delete lines 3 to 9 and substitute the following:“(b) in section 41—(i) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3):“(3A) An employer or a trade union representative of an employer affected by an agreement specified in paragraph 29 of Part 1 of Schedule 5 may present a complaint to the Director General that an...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 19:In page 30, after line 23, to insert the following:“PART 4 MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTSAmendment of section 3 of Act of 1946 39. Section 3 of the Act of 1946 is amended in the definition of “trade dispute” by the insertion of “and includes any such dispute or difference between employers and workers where the employment has ceased,”...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 20:In page 30, after line 23, to insert the following:“Making of establishment orders 40. The Act of 1946 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 39:“39. (1) Where the Court has held, in pursuance of section 38 of this Act, an inquiry into an application for an establishment order, the Court may, subject to section 37 of this...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 21:In page 30, after line 23, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 40 of Act of 1946 41. Section 40 of the Act of 1946 is amended by the substitution of “may make a recommendation to the Minister to abolish the joint labour committee established by such establishment order or amend such establishment order, and the provisions of section 38 and...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 22:In page 30, after line 23, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 1 of Industrial Relations Act 1976 42. Section 1 of the Industrial Relations Act 1976 is amended by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “agriculture”:“ ‘agriculture’ means—(a) the production of animals (other than...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 23:In page 30, after line 23, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 23 of Act of 1990 43. The Act of 1990 is amended in subsection (1) of section 23—(a) by the insertion of “(or, where the employment has ceased, worked under)” after “has entered into or works under”, and (b) by the insertion of the following paragraph...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Deputies for their contributions and accept their bona fides on this issue. We all want to see effective enforcement and high levels of compliance with the law. Like the Revenue Commissioners, the Health and Safety Authority and other State agencies, NERA takes what might be described as a risk-based approach to its inspections and investigations. There are particular sectors...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: Amendment No. 13 from Deputy Tóibín seeks to provide a role for trade union officials in the enforcement of registered employment agreements, registered employment orders - which are more correctly entitled sectoral employment orders - and employment regulation orders. The amendment would also provide for the Minister making regulations providing for a right of access to trade...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 12:In page 17, line 4, to delete “under Part 4 of the Act of 2015” and substitute “under section 22”.Section 19 of the Bill provides for anti-penalisation measures to protect a worker who invokes any right conferred on him or her by the Act or takes other specified actions under the Act. An amendment introduced on Committee Stage provided...