Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022

What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

• Employees get five days' leave for medical care of relatives or household members needing significant care, without prior notice required.
• Employees can request flexible working arrangements for caring purposes; employers must respond within timeframe with limited grounds for refusal.
• Maternity protection extended to two years for breastfeeding breaks and to transgender males with gender recognition certificates who become pregnant.

Stage timeline What do these stages mean?

1. First Stage 33rd Dáil

   5 Oct 2022
2. Second Stage 33rd Dáil

   12 Oct 2022
3. Committee Stage 33rd Dáil

   13 Oct 2022
4. Second Stage 26th Seanad

   7 Dec 2022
5. Report Stage 33rd Dáil

   7 Dec 2022
6. Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil

   7 Dec 2022
7. Committee Stage 26th Seanad

   14 Dec 2022
8. Report Stage 26th Seanad

   15 Feb 2023
9. Fifth Stage 26th Seanad

   1 Mar 2023
10. Enacted

    4 Apr 2023
11. Cream List 33rd Dáil

    29 Apr 2023

Debates

• From the Seanad 29 Mar 2023 ↗
• Report Stage 1 Mar 2023 ↗
• Committee Stage (Resumed) 15 Feb 2023 ↗
• Committee Stage 31 Jan 2023 ↗
• Second Stage 14 Dec 2022 ↗
• Report and Final Stages 7 Dec 2022 ↗
• Second Stage (Resumed) 13 Oct 2022 ↗
• Second Stage 12 Oct 2022 ↗

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• Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025 Enacted
• Health (Amendment) Bill 2025 Committee Stage
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