Employment Rights
Dail Éireann — 2021-12-09
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Louise O'Reilly (SF), Dublin Fingal

The Minister of State needs to look for where this is happening. Again, I encourage him to log on to indeed.com and have a look at the types of jobs being offered there. They are what would previously have been considered decent jobs. It is not an accident that there is a crisis in the haulage, transport and logistics sector at this time. One of the elements of that crisis is that these jobs are not attractive jobs for people to do. They are highly pressured and now it is a case of, "Have a pat on the back, there is no sick leave or anything else but, congratulations, you are an entrepreneur now." People have to provide their own vehicle but still must work to a roster. There is a great deal of that out there if one looks for it.
I ask the Minister of State to look into the loss of the large Amazon contract by An Post. It is a huge loss. Amazon says it will provide its own drivers but it is not doing so. If he looks at the company's website, he will see how many people it directly employs, notwithstanding the fact there are people who are, in effect, working for it. If he is not prepared to quantify the scale of this problem, we are not going to be able to deal with it.

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Sitting date: 2021-12-09