{"id":3474,"date":"2018-05-18T14:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2018-05-18T14:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:08:42","slug":"crowe-welcomes-fair-hours-amendment-to-employment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-fair-hours-amendment-to-employment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe welcomes fair hours amendment to Employment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has welcomed the passing of his party\u2019s amendment to the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill at Committee Stage. He said the amendment will strengthen and enhance workers\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p>Teachta Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis legislation is crucially important to protect the rights of all workers, but in particular workers that are trapped in precarious and low-paid employment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Bill needed to be strengthened to achieve additional security for workers when it comes to their working hours, and in turn, their incomes. It also needed to ensure that the actual hours worked by an employee are reflected in their employment contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this Bill consists of a number of important provisions, it was essential that the bands of weekly working hours were made clear and precise in the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government had tried to bring forward an amendment to the weekly bands which they had initially proposed, but this change which would have undermined workers\u2019 rights. This was thankfully defeated in favour of the structure of bands put forward by Sinn F\u00e9in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has welcomed the passing of his party\u2019s amendment to the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill at Committee Stage. He said the amendment will strengthen and enhance workers\u2019 rights. Teachta Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cThis legislation is crucially important to protect the rights of all workers, but in particular workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}