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

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 41:In page 7, after line 27, to insert the following: “Transfer of property of Director of Equality Tribunal to Workplace Relations Commission 21.(1) On the commencement of sections 83 and 84 of the Act of 2015 all property, including choses-in-action, that immediately before such commencement, was vested in the Director of the Equality Tribunal shall stand...

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

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 42:In page 7, after line 27, to insert the following:“Transfer of rights and liabilities of Director of Equality Tribunal to Workplace Relations Commission 22.(1) All rights and liabilities of the Director of the Equality Tribunal subsisting immediately before the commencement of sections 83 and 84 of the Act of 2015 and arising by virtue of any contract or...

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

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 43:In page 7, after line 27, to insert the following:“Liability for loss occurring before commencement of sections 83 and 84 of Act of 2015 23. (1) A claim in respect of any loss or injury alleged to have been suffered by any person arising out of the performance before the commencement of sections 83 and 84 of the Act of 2015 of any of the functions of the...

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

Gerald Nash: I move amendment No. 44:In page 7, after line 27, to insert the following: “Provisions consequent upon transfer of property, rights and liabilities to Workplace Relations Commission 24.(1) Anything commenced and not completed before the commencement of sections 83 and 84 of the Act of 2015 by or under the authority of the Director of the Equality Tribunal may, on or after the...

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

Gerald Nash: I recognise where the Deputies are coming from and the spirit in which they propose the amendments. I am satisfied that we have a very strong balance on the Low Pay Commission. All of the members applied through the Public Appointments Service which is a system that works very well. I am satisfied that those who have an understanding of the interests of employers can reflect very well the...

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...