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Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016
- Sponsor
- David Cullinane · Sinn Féin
- Introduced
- 14 Jun 2016
- Last updated
- 13 Feb 2020
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Workers can request more hours; employers must consider requests and can only refuse for objective reasons.
- Employers must tell workers about total available hours in the workplace to improve transparency.
- Creates 'banded hours contracts' — employment agreements with defined hour ranges rather than fixed schedules.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage32nd Dáil14 Jun 2016
- Second Stage32nd Dáil14 Jun 2016
Debates
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