The current number of posts in the employment rights information unit of the Department stands at 14, broken down as follows: one higher executive officer, one executive officer and 12 clerical officers. There is currently one clerical officer vacancy.
The employment rights information unit, ERIU, in addition to staffing the telephone service produces a range of materials, for example, information leaflets and booklets that provide a condensed and simplified version of the large corpus of employment rights legislation that is currently on the Statute Book. With particular regard for the needs of non-national employees the Department has translated key employment rights information into nine languages and made this available in leaflet form and on the Department's website. The unit distributes thousands of information leaflets and booklets to citizen information centres and post offices etc. around the country.
The ERIU responds to messages left on the out of business hours phone service, does one-to-one interviews in privacy with personal callers, provides written replies to correspondence, parliamentary questions etc., responds to the electronic mail service, attends exhibitions, seminars, schools etc. to explain entitlements and distributes explanatory materials on a range of employment legislation.