No 27 of 2007 - Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Maters) Act 2007
What does this Act do?
The “Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Act 2007” is mainly concerned with the implementation of Sections 18 (“Proposal to address Exceptional Collective Redundancy Situations”) and 19 (“Dismissals in Industrial Disputes”) of the Social Partnership Agreement “Towards 2016”.
This legislation provides for a Redundancy Panel in accordance with the agreed terms of “Towards 2016”. Its focus is to ensure that redundancies are in fact genuine as opposed to situations where workers are simply replaced in the same job by new workers performing the same tasks at lower wages. The legislation also provides an additional legislative safeguard for the rights of employees who have been involved in a strike, other industrial action or a lockout but who have not subsequently been re-engaged. A number of other measures to up-date employment rights legislation are also included, principally the removal of the upper age limit of 66 for statutory redundancy entitlement and implementation of the mandatory judgement of the European Court of Justice in the “Junk v Kuhnel” case of 27 January, 2005.
Contact Department:
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Signed by the President:
8 May 2007
Full details of this Act can be found on the Oireachtas website.