Written answers
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Joint Labour Committees
Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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244. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to clarify when he expects to sign the next Joint Labour Committee Employment Regulation Order, JLC ERO, into law; if he will report on his meeting with the JLC ERO body on 26 January 2024 to go through submission in the WRC; and if he accepts that six months have now elapsed since the signing of the last JLC ERO on 4 September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4148/24]
Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Joint Labour Committees (JLCs) are independent in their functions.If a JLC adopts proposals for an Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for a sector, it will submit them to the Labour Court for consideration. The Labour Court will then make a decision on the adoption of the proposals. If the Court decides to adopt the proposals, a copy is presented to me and, if I consider it appropriate to do so, I will make an ERO giving effect to the proposals.
The most recent ERO, which was for the Security Sector, came into force on 4th September 2023. I have not to date received a proposal from the Labour Court in relation to any other ERO.
I have not attended a meeting with a JLC and do not plan to do so in the future.
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