Seanad debates
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Industrial Relations (Joint Labour Committees) Bill 2019: Second Stage
10:30 am
Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The voluntarist sector does not work. If the Minister of State knew people working in retail or hotels, not in management but on the floor, stacking the shelves or changing the beds, he would know the sector is completely wrought with poverty pay and insecurity. There is now an agency operating in Kerry supplying workers to make the hotel beds. Any worker who complains about an incredibly sore back because of the amount of work they are doing just does not get hired the following week. That is what this sector has been brought down to. The Government side has little to say. I will hand over to my colleague.
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