Seanad debates
Tuesday, 10 June 2003
Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
The provisions of section 10, as currently written, has extended the one-year period up to four years. That has come out of the ether. I do not know where it has come from. Nobody ever discussed or agreed on that particular part of it. It provides no limit at all on the period of the renewal following that period. Any reasonable person would see that this could be grossly unfair. As currently drafted, the Bill allows an employer to employ a worker on a fixed-term contract for a period of one day short of four years and then renew that contract for another period, without any restriction on the period of that renewal contract. The way it is written defeats the whole purpose of it. Furthermore, there is no limit on the number of renewals that may take place after that first four-year period.
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