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Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act, 1973

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Number 4 of 1973

MINIMUM NOTICE AND TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT, 1973

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Interpretation.

2.

Commencement.

3.

Non-application of Act.

4.

Minimum period of notice.

5.

Rights of employee during period of notice.

6.

Right of employer to notice.

7.

Right to waive notice.

8.

Right to terminate contract of employment without notice.

9.

Written statement of terms of employment.

10.

Failure of employer to furnish statement.

11.

Reference of disputes to Tribunal.

12.

Rights of employee on default of employer.

13.

Provisions relating to winding up and bankruptcy.

14.

Regulations.

15.

Laying of Regulations and certain draft orders before Houses of Oireachtas.

16.

Expenses of Minister.

17.

Short title.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Computation of Continuous Service

SECOND SCHEDULE

Rights of Employee During Period of Notice

Acts Referred to

Redundancy Payments Act, 1967

1967, No. 21

Civil Service Commissioners Act, 1956

1956, No. 45

Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

1894, c. 60

Companies Act, 1963

1963, No. 33

Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy (Ireland) Act, 1889

1889, c. 60

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Number 4 of 1973

MINIMUM NOTICE AND TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT, 1973

AN ACT TO REQUIRE A MINIMUM PERIOD OF NOTICE TO TERMINATE THE EMPLOYMENT OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED FOR A QUALIFYING PERIOD, TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE GIVING OF NOTICE, AND TO REQUIRE EMPLOYERS TO GIVE WRITTEN PARTICULARS OF THE TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT, AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [9th May, 1973]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: