Prohibition of Bogus Self-Employment Bill 2018

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The proposed law would crack down on employers who wrongly label normal jobs as self-employment. It would stop employers from forcing or pressuring workers to sign “contracts for services” when the working relationship is really one of employee and employer, and it would ban dismissing someone just to push them into that arrangement. Workers caught up in these fake self-employed setups could seek remedies such as being reinstated, re-engaged, compensated, or have missing tax and social welfare contributions dealt with. It also lets these claims be handled through the Workplace Relations system and updates unfair dismissal rules so this kind of tactic is treated as unfair dismissal.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to disincentivise employers from entering into bogus contracts for services, to prohibit dismissals in order to induce workers to enter into contracts for services, to prohibit misrepresenting employment as a contract for services, to prohibit false inducements for contract for services, to provide for a right to redress for workers party to a bogus contract for services and for claims to be heard under the Workplace Relations Act 2015, to amend the Unfair Dismissals Act, 1977 and the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and to provide for related matters

Last updated 13 February 2020