Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of workers employed, by sector, in contracts governed by Joint Labour Committee agreements. [41251/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The most recent estimates of the number of workers covered by the JLC and REA systems were published in the 2011 Report of the Independent Review of Employment Regulations Orders and Registered Employment Agreement Wage Setting Mechanisms (the Duffy Walsh Report).

Duffy Walsh estimated that there were between 151,539 and 204,724 workers in the sectors covered by JLCs in 2009. A breakdown by JLC sector is set out.

In their report, Duffy Walsh drew attention to the difficulties in estimating employment numbers in these sectors. The report pointed to the particular problems in finding official statistics for employment that tally precisely with most of the JLC and REA categories. The report provides the authors’ best estimate given the data available to them.