Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendments Nos. 37 and 58 are amending the process around termination. It is important to make the point that the provisions of the Bill do not preclude employees from making a request for follow-on, flexible working or remote working arrangements to commence, once a period of seasonal variation concludes. A flexible working agreement could address the seasonality of the workplace with regard to the use of shortened or flexible hours during certain parts of the year. However, that would have to be done with agreement between the employer and the employee as part of the flexible working agreement. Where an employer seeks to terminate on the basis of seasonality, the employee can make a new request, which could be designed to reflect the seasonality of work in that workplace.