Following a Labour Court review of the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) system, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has presented a reform of the infrastructure for labour conflict resolution. The number of JLCs will be halved, leaving seven committees of amended scope. The reform further includes a new website to replace the five current sites of the workplace related bodies, a single e-form for over 130 types of complaints and a publicly available database of decisions and determinations by the labour court. Meanwhile a SIPTU spokesperson said that Government moves to give effect to a promise in the joint Programme for Government to enact legalisation on collective bargaining would mark a ‘turning point for workers’. However, SIPTU expects massive resistance from the side of the ’establishment’.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/Ireland ...
http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2013/featurednews/fullstory_17648_en.html
Focus on Joint Labour Committees: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/country/ireland ...
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.