Joint Labour Committees must be re-established immediately \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/p>\n
Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the re-establishment of the Joint Labour Committees (JLCs).<\/p>\n
Crowe said that the process of implementing the Joint Labour Committees, which are in place to protect the rights\u2019 of workers by ensuring statutory minimum remuneration levels and the terms and conditions of employment contracts must begin immediately.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cLast July, when the High Court struck down the JLCs the rights\u2019 and incomes of low paid workers were further eroded. Official statistics show that the income gap continues to widen with people on low wages being forced onto the ‘Dole’ or into poverty.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the legislative process Sinn F\u00e9in put down a number of amendments to secure the rights of low paid workers including the retention of the Sunday Premium. These were opposed by the Labour TD\u2019s who voted inexplicably in favour of reducing workers\u2019 actual rights in this area.<\/p>\n
The onus is now on the Government to include additional categories of low-paid workers and establish a Code of Practice for Sunday working that respects the traditional rights and entitlements of low paid workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to protect low paid workers from exploitation and to establish fair pay and conditions for a fair days work..\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joint Labour Committees must be re-established immediately \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the re-establishment of the Joint Labour Committees (JLCs). Crowe said that the process of implementing the Joint Labour Committees, which are in place to protect the rights\u2019 of workers by ensuring statutory minimum remuneration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}