Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act 2003

Secondment of staff of Forfás.

20.—(1) A person seconded from Forfás under paragraph 2(2) of the Second Schedule to the Act of 1993 (as amended by section 35 ) to the Foundation who is on such secondment immediately before the commencement of this section, shall cease to be a member of the staff of Forfás and shall become a member of the staff of the Foundation.

(2) Save in accordance with a collective agreement negotiated with any recognised trade union or staff associations concerned, a person referred to in this section, shall not while in the service of the Foundation, receive a lesser scale of pay or be made subject to less beneficial terms and conditions of service (including those relating to tenure of office) than the scale of pay to which he or she was entitled and the terms and conditions of service (including conditions relating to tenure of office) to which he or she was subject immediately before becoming a member of the staff of the Foundation.

(3) Superannuation benefits granted under schemes under section 21 to persons who, immediately before the commencement of this section, were members of the staff of Forfás seconded to the Foundation and the terms and conditions relating to those benefits shall not be less favourable to those persons than those to which they were entitled immediately before that day.

(4) This section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order.