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No. 147 of 2017

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017

Public bill · Government · Presented

It would make employers give new workers their key job terms within five days, instead of leaving them waiting for up to two months, and it creates penalties for failing to do so or giving false information. It also aims to curb zero-hour work practices, guarantee a minimum payment when people are called in but not given work, and let workers on very low-hour contracts seek “banded hours” that better match the hours they actually work. It further strengthens protection for workers who use their employment rights so they cannot be punished for doing so.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for a requirement that employers provide employees with certain terms of employment within a certain period after commencing employment; to impose sanctions for certain offences; to further provide for a minimum payment due to employees in certain circumstances; to prohibit contracts specifying zero as the contract hours in certain circumstances and to provide for the introduction of banded contract hours; to further provide for prohibition of penalisation and for those purposes to amend the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 and the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997; to amend the Workplace Relations Act 2015; and to provide for related matters

Last updated 25 October 2019

Sponsor
  • Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Cream List
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Order for Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Order for Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage
    Dáil

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