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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is an important amendment. We should proof everything we do against low pay. The Department should not produce anything that is not equality-proofed in respect of pay and wages. If we do not include these factors, the court will be directed by the legislation to disregard the prevalence of low pay and precarious work. The level of unemployment and competitiveness will be the only...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I will press the amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Chairman wish me to speak to all of these amendments?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 13:In page 16, line 25, after "not" to insert "blacklist,". The Minister of State will be aware of blacklisting, which reared its ugly head in Great Britain recently. This practice involves a systematic surveillance of trade unionists who are simply active within the legal parameters of that country. They have been targeted and victimised by employers and companies...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I am getting the feeling that the Minister will not accept anything an Opposition Deputy might come up with because blacklisting is a new issue and is not covered anywhere else in legislation. It is a serious threat to workers and has been evident in other countries. It is carried out in a very professional and focused manner. Rather than us sitting here in six months or, God willing, two...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I reiterate that prevention is better than cure.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 14:In page 16, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:"(a) trade union membership or activity,".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 18:In page 17, line 9, to delete "or intimidation" and substitute ", intimidation or harassment".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 19:In page 17, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:"(5) The Minister may authorise other persons, including designated union officials, to carry out inspections and monitoring of Registered Employment Agreements, Registered Employment Orders and Employment Regulation Orders. (6) The Minister may make regulations providing access, for union officials, to the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 20:In page 17, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: "Union entitled to represent members' interests20. (1) A trade union, at the request of the employee, may represent the employee in relation to the employee’s rights and entitlements under a registered employment agreement and sectoral employment order. (2) A union is entitled to represent its...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 21:In page 17, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:"Access to workplaces 20. (1) A trade union official is entitled, in accordance with this section to enter a workplace for purposes related to—(a) monitoring compliance with the operation of a registered employment agreement and sectoral employment order, (b) monitoring compliance with other Acts...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 25:In page 20, line 11, to delete "voluntary".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This amendment, which seeks to delete the word "voluntary", goes to the heart of this debate. Section 23 provides that "for the purposes of this Act, 'collective bargaining' comprises voluntary engagements". I suppose that goes to the heart of the problem. This Bill definitely improves the situation of workers. There is no doubt about that. However, the voluntary nature of union...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: An individual in a legal dispute has the right to select his or her solicitor and how that solicitor represents him or her, given that the solicitor is moreau faitwith the legal landscape than the individual and would be better able and skilled to represent that individual. The same logic applies to a worker who is seeking to have a trade union official represent him or her in a workplace...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I am cautious about this amendment because of the question of the balance between employee and employer. For example, if the employee lives in west Kerry and the construction company is based in Dublin but carries out its business around the State, will the employee have to travel from Kerry to the Dublin Circuit Court? If someone is of little means, staying in a bed and breakfast or hotel...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Minister of State understand from where I am coming?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State might table an amendment to underline that practice.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat.

Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for paid bereavement leave.Cuirim an Bille seo os comhair na Dála. Cuirfidh mé in iúl don Teach na sonraí atá sa Bhille. As the Minister is aware, there is no legislative provision for bereavement leave. While the public sector provides for such leave and employers in the private sector...

Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."