Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015

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Number 27 of 2015


INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2015


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, collective citations, construction and commencement

2. Definitions

3. Expenses

4. Repeals

PART 2

Registered Employment Agreements and Sectoral Employment Orders

Chapter 1

Definitions

5. Definitions (Part 2)

Chapter 2

Registered employment agreements

6. Definitions (Chapter 2)

7. Register of Employment Agreements

8. Registration of employment agreements

9. Variation of registered employment agreements

10. Cancellation of registration

11. Adaptation of contracts of service consequential upon registration of employment agreement

12. Interpretation of registered employment agreements

Chapter 3

Sectoral employment orders

13. Definitions (Chapter 3)

14. Submission of request to Court

15. Examination by Court

16. Court recommendation to Minister

17. Sectoral employment orders

18. Review of sectoral employment orders

19. Adaptation of contracts of service consequential upon sectoral employment orders

20. Prohibition on penalisation of worker by employer

21. Exemption from obligation to pay remuneration provided by sectoral employment orders

Chapter 4

Miscellaneous

22. Records

23. Decision of adjudication officer under section 41 of Act of 2015

24. Amendment of Act of 2015

PART 3

Collective Bargaining

25. Definitions (Part 3)

26. Amendment of section 1 of Principal Act

27. Amendment of Principal Act

28. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act

29. New section 2A inserted into Principal Act

30. Amendment of section 5 of Principal Act

31. Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act

32. Amendment of section 8 of Principal Act

33. Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act

34. New section 11A inserted into Principal Act

35. Amendment of section 1 of Act of 2004

36. Amendment of section 8 of Act of 2004

37. Amendment of section 9 of Act of 2004

38. Amendment of section 13 of Act of 2004

39. Amendment of section 6 of Unfair Dismissals Act 1977

PART 4

Miscellaneous Amendments

40. Amendment of section 3 of Act of 1946

41. Making of establishment orders

42. Amendment of section 40 of Act of 1946

43. Amendment of section 1 of Industrial Relations Act 1976

44. Amendment of section 23 of Act of 1990

45. Time limit in relation to trade dispute where retired worker is party to dispute

46. Amendment of Agricultural Workers Joint Labour Committee Establishment Order 1976


Acts Referred to

Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)

Finance Act 2002 (No. 5)

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 (No. 11)

Industrial Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 (No. 4)

Industrial Relations Act 1946 (No. 26)

Industrial Relations Act 1969 (No. 14)

Industrial Relations Act 1976 (No. 15)

Industrial Relations Act 1990 (No. 19)

Industrial Relations Acts 1946 to 2012

Industrial Training Act 1967 (No. 5)

Interpretation Act 2005 (No. 23)

National Minimum Wage Act 2000 (No. 5)

Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (No. 14)

Redundancy Payments Act 1967 (No. 21)

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)

Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 (No. 10)

Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2007

Workplace Relations Act 2015 (No. 16)

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Number 27 of 2015


INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2015


An Act to make further and better provision for promoting harmonious relations between workers and employers and, in particular, to make provision for a system of registered employment agreements and sectoral employment orders; to amend and extend the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 ; to amend and extend the Industrial Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 ; to provide for certain interim relief for certain persons in respect of actions taken by them in relation to investigations of trade disputes and, for that purpose, to amend the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 ; to amend the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.

[22 nd July, 2015]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: