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Job Protection. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: Issues of citizenship and family reunification are, in the first instance, matters for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The Employment Permits Bill provides for certain categories of workers to have automatic family reunification rights and automatic rights for spouses to work here. The implications of the positive participation of people from other countries in our society...

National Minimum Wage. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: The labour inspectorate of the Department is responsible for monitoring certain employment conditions for all categories of workers in Ireland, including immigrant workers. The inspectorate operates without any differentiation with regard to worker nationality as statutory employment rights and protections apply to immigrant workers in exactly the same manner as they do to other workers. The...

National Minimum Wage. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: I assure the Deputy that 31 labour inspectors have been appointed. Issues arose regarding their recruitment and training and it took three separate recruitment campaigns to achieve the full complement. This is a complex area and the inspectors cannot operate unless they know the rules. The number of inspections is interesting. I am not sure whether the same method of calculation is used now...

National Minimum Wage. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Know Before You Go campaign was run in the accession states. We received a great deal of co-operation from the various embassies and we have tried to ensure the information is available in those countries. It is expensive to engage in a public information campaign and, therefore, additional resources will be required.

National Minimum Wage. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: It was assumed in error that the information had been cleared in all languages.

National Minimum Wage. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: The labour inspectorate contacted the principal parties on this issue on Tuesday, 13 March, and, subsequently, met senior representatives of the ESB and their agents and these contacts have been ongoing since. In the meantime, labour inspectors have commenced inquiries with the contractor concerned in this case and have visited both the head office and the site in Moneypoint. Those inquiries...

National Minimum Wage. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: A total of 31 inspectors are in place and arrangements are made to enable them to visit workplaces throughout the State. With regard to their mandate, a number of difficulties have arisen about what must be provided in wage slips. These are some of the issues that must be addressed under the new mandate that will, undoubtedly, be provided for the labour inspectorate. With regard to Gama, the...

National Minimum Wage. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: The labour inspectors have the power to examine wage slips. One of the difficulties is that the level of information required to be provided on the wage slips is not of a standard that is useful in terms of pursuing a successful prosecution or of establishing whether the appropriate rates for the employment have been paid. There is a requirement to retain records and wage slips but,...

Labour Inspectorate. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: In accordance with its remit under employment rights legislation the labour inspectorate is empowered to examine particular employer records. In this connection, inspectors can examine copies of statements of pay, payslips, and reconcile these with the payroll records. In addition, inspectors can examine the working time records an employer is obliged to maintain. The preparation and...

Labour Inspectorate. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: The Deputy is right that this is an important issue that must be addressed urgently. The issue features strongly in the current partnership negotiations and in the two reviews already completed by the Department. The Payment of Wages Act 1991 states that an employer shall give or cause to be given to an employee a statement in writing specifying clearly the gross amount of the wages payable...

Labour Inspectorate. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: I will take the last point first. When the new legislation is passed the permit will be held by the employee, but it will be held on foot of an offer of a particular job. This will ensure a more level playing field for the employee. In the majority of cases, except for Gama, the employees involved in cases did not need work permits because they are EEA nationals. Ultimately, the more...

Labour Inspectorate. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: That has not yet been decided.

Flexible Work Practices. (23 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: The challenge in achieving work-life balance in individual enterprises is to establish policies that reflect the reality of the workplace and meet the many diverse needs of employees. To this end, the development of work-life balance policies in Ireland is addressed on two fronts, first, through appropriate legislative measures which provide for statutory entitlements such as maternity leave,...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (22 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: When it was introduced on 1 April 2000, the national minimum hourly rate of pay was set at £4.40, or €5.59, per hour. The current rate is €7.65 per hour, which represents an increase in real terms — taking into account increases in the consumer price index — of 11.7% since its introduction.

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (22 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: As I stated in response to the Deputy's earlier question, the addresses of the victims and their individual training records are personal to the deceased and accordingly this information was not released. In many of these cases, files have been prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions and prosecutions are pending. In other cases, files are being prepared for consideration by the...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (22 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: The statistics required by the Deputy are shown in the table. It should be noted that up to December 2004, my Department compiled statistics on the basis of redundancies notified in each year — they did not all necessarily happen. From 2005, with the new computer system in redundancy section, statistics are compiled on the basis of the number of redundancies that actually occurred in a...

Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages. (22 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: Deputy Morgan is right to say that some of this issue has been dealt with on Committee Stage and earlier today. There is one provision already in Irish law, of which Deputy Howlin is aware, namely, section 10(1) of the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996.

Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages. (22 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: It is the Act which accords most closely with the provisions of this directive being transposed into law. That is one reason for the provision. Most of the submissions received during the consultation phase took the view that this would be the appropriate way to go. It has not posed a difficulty previously and as the role of the Labour Court has been included I do not anticipate any...

Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages. (22 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: I have dealt with most of this on Committee Stage. If for example we were to delete the words "establishing one or more information and consultation arrangements" we would remove the flexibility which might be very important in situations where different sections in an undertaking have different responsibilities or perhaps are on different campuses. Issues might arise in one branch that would...

Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages. (22 Mar 2006)

Tony Killeen: I move amendment No. 29: In page 9, line 3, to delete "which" and substitute "whom". This amendment and amendment No. 30 propose grammatical alterations.