Ivana Bacik (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move recommendation No. 6:

In page 32, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:

“Layoffs and short-time

7. If and for so long as—

(a) an employer is the beneficiary of the wage subsidy scheme or of special warehousing and interest provisions under the Act of 2020 as amended by this Act, and

(b) one or more employees of the employer have been laid off or placed on shorttime due to the effects of measures required to be taken by his or her employer ino

order to comply with, or as a consequence of, Government policy to prevent, limit, minimise or slow the spread of infection of Covid-19,

then new employees may be hired by the employer only—

(i) to positions in the workforce where such layoffs or short-time have not occurred,

and

(ii) where the vacancy cannot be filled by one of the employer’s employees on shorttime work.”.

We have already discussed this amendment and I acknowledge and appreciate that this issue has been addressed already in the Bill.