Jack Wall
Question:326. Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the regulations regarding an employment query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1546/14]
View answerWednesday, 15 January 2014
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As the Deputy will appreciate, I cannot give legal advice in the context of answering a Dáil question and the interpretation of the law is a matter for the Courts and relevant quasi-judicial bodies.
The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) is mandated to secure compliance with employment rights legislation. Under the current reform programme NERA’s Information Unit has been restructured and expanded to form a new Workplace Relations Customer Service Section. This Section provides information in relation to employment, equality and industrial relations rights and obligations. It can be contacted at Lo-call:1890 80 80 90. The website http://www.workplacerelations.ie also provides extensive information on employment rights.
Where a person’s employment is terminated by reason of redundancy he/she may be eligible for a statutory redundancy payment, subject to the qualifying criteria. The Redundancy Payments legislation comes within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, and is administered by her Department. General information on Redundancy is also available on the Workplace Relations Customer Service information line at lo-call 1890 80 80 90. The Redundancy Payments Section of the Department of Social Protection can be contacted at: Floor 2, Block C, the Earlsfort Centre, Lower Hatch Street, Dublin 2 or at lo-call 1890 800 699.
The circumstances in which an employee is entitled to minimum notice is set out in the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973. Entitlements for any untaken annual leave are set out in the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. Information on these Acts is also available from the Workplace Relations Customer Services Section and on www.workplacerelations.ie.
Complaints under any of the legislation mentioned above may be made via downloading the “Single Complaint Form” from the website www.workplacerelations.ie.