Second Stage Lapsed 32nd Dáil 39/2016
Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016
- Sponsor
- David Cullinane
- Introduced
- 14 Jun 2016
- Last updated
- 13 Feb 2020
Plain-English summary AI · 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 timeline
- First Stage 32nd Dáil14 Jun 2016
- Second Stage 32nd Dáil14 Jun 2016