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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I welcome Deputy David Cullinane and his adviser, Dr. Conor McCabe, to the second session of our meeting today to discuss the Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official either by name or in such a way as to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Cullinane for his comments. Before I invite members to put their questions, the committee as a whole is in agreement that there is an issue around if-and-when contracts and zero hour contracts. The fact that the Government has published heads of a Bill on the issue in the past week supports that there is an issue. I agree with Deputy Cullinane that some of the organisations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Is Dr. McCabe referring in that regard to the definitions of "worker" and "employer"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Ms Bolger and Ms Maguire welcomed the Bill. The committee's engagement with them was one of the best we have had. It was very constructive. They stated that the definitions of "worker" and "employer" as currently set out in the Bill are problematic because they are taken from different Acts. In regard to the definition of "worker" and the exclusion in that regard of "all people employed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Was the intention to include or exclude those workers or was it an unintended consequence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: That is a fair point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: ICTU actually sought a timeframe of 18 months. As Deputy David Cullinane would not have been privy to this, when we met the University of Limerick study representatives, I questioned Dr. Michelle O'Sullivan again on the timeframes of six months, nine months, 12 months and whatever other timeframe might be suggested. She reiterated the figure of six months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: In order that we are all aware, we will not be taking amendments at this stage. I checked the position again this morning because obviously it is new to me also. The giving of a Second Reading to the Banded Hours Contract Bill was deferred until 7 July to allow the committee to engage in detailed scrutiny. Once that date is reached, the Bill will automatically be passed-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I beg your pardon. Once that date is reached, the Bill will be placed on the Order Paper under the heading of Order for Committee Stage. Amendments to the Bill may only be tabled on Committee Stage after the Dáil has referred the Bill to the relevant select committee. It is unusual, as the clerk said to me, that it has come before us after First Stage. I just want everyone to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: The bands did not come in for any discussion whatsoever. The committee has heard from some employment law specialists who considered that a stand-alone Bill was perhaps not the best way forward and that the principle enshrined in the Bill could be incorporated by way of an amendment to existing legislation. Does Deputy Cullinane have a comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I welcome Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Pat Breen, and his officials to the last session of our meeting today on the Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that members should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: I will, of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: For the sake of clarity, the committee agreed today to receive a briefing from the Department on the Government's Bill on 20 June.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Let me clarify by reading from section 3, to which I referred earlier. It states:A worker, or his or her trade union or a representative acting on his or her behalf, shall be entitled after a period of no less than 6 months of continuous employment with his or her employer, to request in writing of his or her employer to be moved to an increased weekly band. It states quite clearly that a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Does the Minister of State think that is an unintended consequence of the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: The Senator needs to allow the Minister of State to reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: In fairness to everyone here today, we are trying to conclude deliberations on Sinn Féin's Banded Hours Contract Bill. The Minister of State has spoken about the heads of the Bill that the Government will bring forward. Officials from the Department will come forward and we will have an opportunity to debate the other Bill. Earlier today Dr. Caroline Murphy from the University of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Does Deputy Neville wish to comment? No. Does anyone else wish to comment? No. We are not discussing the new Bill today but I have a query about the rate or method of calculating pay. The Minister of State mentioned five points that are very good for a new employee. Will the information provided to a new employee state whether he or she is working a week-in-hand, a forthnight-in-hand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: New employees can feel shy about asking whether they must work a week-in-hand or two weeks-in-hand. In some cases they must work a month-in-hand. I ask that the information is stated in the terms and conditions of employment given to employees in their first week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: Yes.