Employment Rights and Industrial Relations Streamlining Project
Summary and Analysis of Responses to the Consultation on the Reform of the State's Employment Rights and Industrial Relations Structures and Procedures
In July 2011, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mr Richard Bruton T.D., announced plans to undertake a programme of major reform of the State’s employment rights and industrial relations procedures and institutions. Central to this programme is the project to streamline the State’s five employment rights bodies into a simplified two-tier structure comprising a single body of first instance and a single body of appeal.
In August, the Minister launched a consultation process in August inviting views on how the reform objectives can be achieved in a manner that bests serves the users of the State’s employment rights and industrial rights services. Over 65 consultation responses were received from a broad spectrum of organisations and individuals including representatives of employers, employees, the legal profession, public bodies, non-governmental organisations, academics and individuals. Overall, the responses conveyed very broad support for the Minister’s proposals and provided many useful observations and suggestions on how the proposals could best be implemented. A summary and analysis of the submissions received, along with the Minister's introductory comments, is available at the link below.
A full list of the parties who made submissions as part of the process is provided below, along with links to the submission documents (where these have been made available).
Submissions Received:
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Dept. of Public Expenditure & Reform
Submissions were also received from the following two parties but these have not been made available for publication on the Department's website:
Health Service Executive
REHAB
Contact Us
Eamonn Gallagher 01 6313286
Robert Ahern 01 6313285
Employment Rights and Industrial Relations Streamlining Project
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Davitt House
65a Adelaide Road
Dublin 2.
Related contacts
National Employment Rights Authority
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Last modified: 27/10/2011
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