Employment Rights

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Questions (296)

Thomas P. Broughan

Question:

296. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of complaints made to the Rights Commissioner Service regarding breaches of section 18 of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 in the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [17435/14]

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Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

The details of the number of complaints referred to the Rights Commissioner Service regarding breaches under section 18 of the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 for the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 are set out in the following table.

Year	2012	2013	2014 (to end March)
No. of complaints referred to RCS under section 18 of the OWT Act 1997	Statistics not available for 2012*	60	7

*Statistics are not available for 2012 in relation to the number of complaints referred to the Rights Commissioner Service under section 18 of the OWT Act 1997. However, the total number of complaints referred to the Rights Commissioner Service for 2012 under the OWT Act 1997 was 1,308.