Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2011
Public bill · Private Member · Presented
The proposed law would restore statutory pay and employment protections for workers covered by Employment Regulation Orders, after a 2011 High Court ruling struck down the existing system. It would require Joint Labour Committees to consider workers’ and employers’ interests, economic and employment conditions, and national pay agreements; give the Minister responsibility for making orders, subject to Oireachtas oversight; and allow early correction of errors or exceptional problems. Employers’ breaches would no longer be criminal offences, but workers or the enforcement body could pursue them through civil proceedings.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make further and better provisions for promoting harmonious relations between workers and employers, to prevent and/or settle trade disputes, to provide principles and policies to which a Joint Labour Committee must have regard when formulating proposals to submit to the Labour Court for Employment Regulation Orders, to provide for the making of an Employment Regulation Order by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, to provide the Oireachtas with a power of supervision, revocation or cancellation in respect of Employment Regulation Orders, to decriminalise failure on the part of employers to comply with Employment Regulation Orders, to amend and extend the Industrial Relations Acts 1946-2004 and to provide for related matters
Last updated 16 April 2018
- Willie O'Dea Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2011: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage Dáil
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage Dáil