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Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: Amendment No. 28 seeks to clarify in section 13C(1) that where an employer is considering a request for a flexible working agreement that he or she should have regard to as his or her needs only in so far as they are relevant to the functioning of his or her business. This may seem obvious but we know that penalisation happens in workplaces and the legislation needs to be crystal clear that,...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: Yes.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 29: In page 15, line 30, after “may” to insert “, where that employer has provided notice in writing of their rationale,”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 30: In page 16, to delete line 42.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: Amendment No. 30 seeks to delete subsection 13E(1)(a) which refers to "seasonal variations" and provides that the termination shall only be valid for the period in which such seasonal variations occur and upon the conclusion of that period, the flexible working agreement shall resume. This amendment is to ensure consistency with amendment No. 31 which seeks to ensure that seasonal variations...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 38: In page 23, line 29, after “years” to insert “or when the employment ceases”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: Amendment No. 38 seeks to include, as part of the proposed amendments to section 29 of the principal Act, a provision that where records of medical leave are kept, as well as the three-year limit for the retention of such records, they shall be destroyed when employment ceases, whichever occurs earlier. As such records are likely to contain sensitive information, it is important from a data...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 39: In page 23, line 31, after “years” to insert “or when the employment ceases”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 42: In page 28, to delete line 7.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: Amendments Nos. 42 and 43 seek to address a similar issue to amendments Nos. 30 and 31. They require that where a termination of a remote working agreement occurs due to circumstances described in section 22(1)(a), that is, seasonal variation, the termination shall only be valid for the period in which such seasonal variations occur and, upon the conclusion of that period, the remote working...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 43: In page 28, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(2) An employer may also terminate an agreement under subsection (1) where the employer is satisfied that the flexible working arrangement would have, or is having, a substantial adverse effect on the operation of his or her business, profession or occupation, by reason of seasonal variations in...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 45: In page 34, line 31, after “her” to insert “or their”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I welcome that section 34 seeks to be trans inclusive in respect of breast-feeding provisions. However, in the proposed amendment to the definition of an employee who is breast-feeding as outlined in section 2(1), I propose the word "their" is inserted after the pronoun "her" in order to ensure the definition as well as the intention of the section is trans inclusive. I would appreciate it...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 23: In page 13, line 35, to delete “16 years” and substitute “21 years”.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 31: In page 17, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(1A) An employer may also terminate an agreement under subsection (1) where the employer is satisfied that the flexible working arrangement would have, or is having, a substantial adverse effect on the operation of his or her business, profession oroccupation, by reason of seasonal variations in...

Seanad: Remuneration Information and Pay Transparency Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Frances Black: I welcome the Minister. I am glad to be here to express my support for this important and timely legislation. I congratulate Senators Ardagh and Crowe on their hard work in respect of it. Deputy Conway-Walsh and others have tabled similar Bills in the Dáil. I hope this can be an area where a good idea is rewarded with cross-party support and swift passage through these Houses....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)

Frances Black: Yesterday morning, the Israeli military murdered ten Palestinians, including two elderly men and a child, and injured more than 100 in a vicious raid on Nablus. Throughout the brutal attack, the Israeli military blocked Palestinian medical personnel from treating the wounded. The raid on Nablus is the second massacre by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank in 2023. The Israeli...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)

Frances Black: I am calling for a debate. I want to quote the Tánaiste. He continued: Those responsible, those carrying out these actions, and those directing them will be held fully accountable, and there will be no hiding places. That is why we have provided additional funding to the International Criminal Court, to give it the capacity to follow up on these crimes. I am asking the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)

Frances Black: It is colonisation and it is horrific. I feel so emotional about this. It is horrific.