Seanad debates
Wednesday, 14 May 2003
Redundancy Payments Bill 2003: Second Stage.
It is important that the fundamental obligations of employers to their employees are honoured and that there are no loopholes in the legislative framework that can be used to escape from fulfilling those obligations. I particularly welcome the fact that people are no longer required to go to the Employment Appeals Tribunal and that section 16 deals with that referral aspect under the Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Acts 1984 to 2001. We all appreciate the trauma of someone losing their job. Additional bureaucratic burdens have to be avoided to ensure people do not have to do unnecessary form filling or fulfil other obligations imposed upon them. I note what the Tánaiste said about the rationalisation of the forms in that three will now be reduced to one and there is capacity to complete them by electronic means.
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