Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007
Public bill · Government · Presented
The measure would create a temporary Redundancy Panel to examine proposed large-scale job cuts, with the Labour Court able to decide whether especially serious cases are “exceptional” before dismissals proceed. Employers could face limits on redundancy-payment rebates and compensation if they proceed improperly, while employees would gain protection against being replaced by lower-paid workers doing essentially the same work. It would also remove the upper age limit for statutory redundancy payments, allowing people aged 66 and over to qualify.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make provision, consequent on the conclusion of the ten-year framework social partnership agreement 2006-2015 known as "Towards 2016", for the establishment of a redundancy panel and the reference to it of certain proposed collective redundancies and for related action by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, including the obtaining from the Labour Court of opinions on the nature of proposed collective redundancies; to remove the upper age limit for entitlement to redundancy payments; to make consequential amendments of the Protection of Employment Act 1977, the Redundancy Payments Act 1967, the Redundancy Payments Act 1971, the Redundancy Payments Act 1979, the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 and the Employment Equality Act 1998; and to make further amendments of those Acts to update penalties and for purposes of statute-law revision
Last updated 13 April 2018
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Primary
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- Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages. Dáil
- Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage. Dáil
- Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007: Order for Second Stage. Seanad
- Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007: Second Stage. Seanad
- Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages. Seanad