Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023

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Number 8 of 2023


Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, collective citation and commencement

PART 2

Amendment of Parental Leave Act 1998

2. Definition - Part 2

3. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act

4. Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act

5. Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act

6. Leave for medical care purposes

7. Domestic violence leave

8. Insertion of new Part IIA in Principal Act

9. Amendment of section 14 of Principal Act

10. Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act

11. Amendment of section 16A of Principal Act

12. Amendment of section 21 of Principal Act

13. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 2015 in relation to dispute under Part IIA

14. Amendment of section 22A of Principal Act

15. Amendment of section 27 of Principal Act

PART 3

Requests for remote working arrangements

16. Interpretation (Part 3)

17. Voidance or modification of certain provisions in agreements

18. Regulations

19. Expenses

20. Right to request a remote working arrangement

21. Obligation on employer to consider request under section 20

22. Termination in certain circumstances of remote working arrangement

23. Changes to remote working arrangements

24. Return to previous working arrangement

25. Abuse of remote working arrangement

26. Protection of employees from penalisation

27. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 2015

28. Records

29. Review of Part

PART 4

Code of practice

30. Definitions - Part 4

31. Code of practice

PART 5

Amendment of other acts

32. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Redundancy Payments Act 1967

33. Amendment of section 6 of Unfair Dismissals Act 1977

34. Amendment of Maternity Protection Act 1994

35. Amendment of Adoptive Leave Act 1995

36. Amendment of Organisation of Working Time Act 1997

37. Amendment of National Minimum Wage Act 2000

38. Amendment of Adoption Act 2010

39. Amendment of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014

40. Amendment of Workplace Relations Act 2015

41. Amendment of Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022


Acts Referred to

Adoption Act 2010 (No. 21)

Adoptive Leave Act 1995 (No. 2)

Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 (No. 14)

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

Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 (No. 46)

Domestic Violence Act 2018 (No. 6)

Employment Agency Act 1971 (No. 27)

Freedom of Information Act 2014 (No. 30)

Human Rights Commission Act 2000 (No. 9)

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 (No. 25)

Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)

Local Government Reform Act 2014 (No. 1)

Maternity Protection Act 1994 (No. 34)

Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25)

National Minimum Wage Act 2000 (No. 5)

Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 (No. 20)

Parental Leave Act 1998 (No. 30)

Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2019

Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 (No. 29)

Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001 (No. 45)

Redundancy Payments Act 1967 (No. 21)

Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 (No. 10)

Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2015

Workplace Relations Act 2015 (No. 16)

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Number 8 of 2023


WORK LIFE BALANCE AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2023


An Act to give further effect to Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 20191 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU and, for that purpose and other purposes, to amend the Parental Leave Act 1998 to provide for the entitlement of certain employees to leave for medical care purposes and domestic violence leave and to request flexible working arrangements for caring purposes; to provide for the entitlement of employees to request remote working arrangements; and for those and other purposes to amend the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 , the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 , the Maternity Protection Act 1994 , the Adoptive Leave Act 1995 , the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 , the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 , the Adoption Act 2010 , the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 , the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 ; and to provide for related matters.

[4th April , 2023]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

1 OJ No. L188, 12.7.2019, p.79