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Thursday, 21 September 2017

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Departmental Administrative Arrangements

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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55. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the employment and industrial relations Acts that her Department has lead responsibility to enforce. [40125/17]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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By virtue of the Labour Affairs and Labour Law (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2017 which came into effect on 1st September last, certain functions, including employment legislation, that came under my Departments remit transferred to my colleague Regina Doherty TD, Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

My Department has maintained lead responsibility for enforcement of all employment legislation by means of the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

My Department has also maintained responsibility for policy in relation to the following employment and industrial relations Acts and regulations:-

Acts

Trade Union Acts 1871 to 1990

Industrial Relations Acts 1946 to 2015

Employment Agency Act 1971

Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts 1977 to 2001

Safety, Health and Welfare (Offshore Installations) Acts 1987 to 1995

Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act 1996

Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996

Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015

Equal Status Act 200

Safety Health and Welfare at Work Acts 2005 and 2014

Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Act 2006

Workplace Relations Act 2015

Provisions of Act

Section 39 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967

Section 8C(1) (inserted by section 80(1)(h) of the Workplace Relations Act 2015) of the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977

Regulations

European Communities (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2000

European Union (Provision of Services) Regulations 2010

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