Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014

Public bill · Government · Presented

Updates Ireland’s employment-permit system for people from outside the European Economic Area, creating clearer permit categories for critical skills, general jobs, company transfers, internships, family members and other situations. It requires employers to consider Irish and EEA workers first, maintains the rule that at least half a company’s workforce should be from the EEA—with limited start-up exceptions—and sets pay and other eligibility conditions. It also protects workers who took reasonable steps to obtain a permit by allowing them to claim compensation from employers for unpaid work, while giving redundant permit holders extra time to find a new job.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Employment Permits Act 2003, to provide a defence to a foreign national in certain proceedings under that Act, to provide for civil proceedings to recompense certain foreign nationals for work done or services rendered in certain circumstances; to amend and extend the Employment Permits Act 2006; to make further provision for the grant of employment permits; to amend the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act 2000; to amend the Immigration Act 2004; to amend the Aliens Order 1946; to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018