Proposed Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2021-07-01
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Joan Collins (I4C), Dublin South-Central

The reason the committee put forward that the legislation should be brought in within six months is that, in December 2019, at the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Mr. Tim Duggan, assistant secretary of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection said:
[L]egislative provisions are being developed to encourage workers to apply to scope section for clarity about their employment status. These are anti-victimisation measures that will allow workers to make a complaint to the WRC if they are victimised by employers because they sought a determination from scope section.
When he was pressed, he said:
There are some small difficulties with it, as the Senator highlighted earlier, but we are seeking to address them. That is definitively on the roadmap to progress that early in the new year.
Therefore, we were told by the assistant secretary in December 2019 that this was being progressed and was to come to the Dáil in 2020. I am asking for clarification. What is the current position?

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Sitting date: 2021-07-01