Jobs Committee to discuss the Blueprint for a New Workplace Relations Service

Chairman of the Committee Deputy Damien English said: “Earlier in the year, Minister for Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD published an 80-page document Blueprint to Deliver a World-Class Workplace Relations Service which contained proposals to radically reform the State’s five industrial relations and employment rights bodies.

In July, the Committee met with Minister Bruton to discuss changes to our workplace relations systems. That meeting gave Committee members a chance to raise any issues they may have on the changes and provide feedback on very important workplace relations reform legislation before it is finalised.

Tomorrow we will have an opportunity to get the views and perspectives of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Employment Appeals Tribunal on the document and its proposals.”

The Committee meeting will begin at 1.30pm in Committee Room 2, Leinster House on Tuesday, 6th November. Before the meeting with the Ad Hoc Committee of the Employment Appeals Tribunal, Committee members will undertake scrutiny of EU legislative proposals: COM(2012)8 and COM(2012)124.

Committee proceedings can be followed live at:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/Web-Live.htm&CatID=83&m=o

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Committee Membership
Deputies: Dara Calleary, Áine Collins, Michael Conaghan, Damien English (Chair), John Halligan, Seán Kyne, Anthony Lawlor, John Lyons (Vice-Chair) and Peadar Tóibín.
Senators: Deirdre Clune, David Cullinane, John Kelly, Michael Mullins, Feargal Quinn and Mary White