Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 February 2010
162 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of workers within the scope of employment regulation orders in agriculture, catering, contract cleaning, hotels, retail grocery and security; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7742/10]
Amharc ar fhreagraReliable data on the number of workers that come within the scope of Employment Regulation Orders are not available.
The absence of systematic data on the number of workers covered by the joint labour committee (JLC) system is acknowledged as an information gap and has been noted, for example, in a review of the operation of the JLC system for the Labour Relations Commission undertaken by the University of Limerick. Since the data relied upon in that study is now out of date, I propose to ask the Labour Relations Commission to advise me on the feasibility of undertaking a further study of the operation of the system having particular regard to the significant changes that have taken place in service sector employment in the past decade.
