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Number 13 of 2012
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
4. Publicly funded work placement schemes, etc.
6. Basic working and employment conditions of agency workers.
7. Anti-avoidance.
8. Certain collective agreements.
9. Restriction of certain enactments.
10. Statement of terms of employment of agency workers.
11. Access to employment by hirer.
12. Voidance of certain provisions.
13. Offence to charge fees to certain individuals.
14. Obligations of hirers to agency workers.
15. Duty of hirer to provide information to employment agency.
16. Amendment of Employment Agency Act 1971.
17. Amendment of section 10 of Protection of Employment Act 1977.
18. Amendment of section 3 of Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996.
19. Amendment of Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Act 2006.
20. Amendment of certain statutory instruments.
Protection of Employees and Redress
21. Protection for persons who report breaches of Act.
23. Prohibition on penalisation by employer.
24. Prohibition on penalisation by hirer.
25. Complaints in respect of certain contraventions of Act.
Corporation Tax Act 1976
AN ACT TO GIVE EFFECT TO DIRECTIVE 2008/104/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF 19 NOVEMBER 2008 1 ON TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK; FOR THAT PURPOSE TO AMEND CERTAIN ENACTMENTS; AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH.
[16 th May, 2012]
Functions transferred and “Minister for” and “Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation” construed (1.09.2017) by Labour Affairs and Labour Law (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 361 of 2017), arts. 2, 3, 6-8, in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 4, 5.
Protection of Employees (Temporary Work Agency) Act 2012 (No. 13 of 2012)
Act included in definitions of “employment enactment” and “relevant enactment” (1.08.2015) by Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015), s. 2 and sch. 1 part 1 item 17, S.I. No. 338 of 2015, with the following effects:
1.— (1) This Act may be cited as the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012.
(2) Sections 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 (other than subsection (1)), 8 , 9 and 13 (other than subsections (2) and (3)) shall be deemed to have come into operation on 5 December 2011.
(3) Subsection (1) of section 6 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 5 December 2011 in so far only as it relates to pay.
(4) Subsections (2) and (3) of section 13 and section 22 shall come into operation on the day immediately following the passing of this Act.
Substituted (1.07.2013) by Education and Training Boards Act 2013 (11/2013), s. 72(1) and sch. 6 item 60, S.I. No. 211 of 2013.
3.— This Act applies to agency workers temporarily assigned by an employment agency to work for, and under the direction and supervision of, a hirer.
Publicly funded work placement schemes, etc.
4.— This Act shall not apply to work carried out pursuant to a placement under—
( a) the work placement programme administered by An Foras Áiseanna Saothair,
( b) the scheme administered by An Foras Áiseanna Saothair known as the national internship scheme,
( c) any variation, extension or replacement of the programme referred to in paragraph (a) or scheme referred to in paragraph (b) , or
( d) any vocational training, integration or retraining scheme or programme financed out of public moneys that the Minister may specify by order, after consultation with—
(i) such other Minister of the Government as he or she considers appropriate,
(ii) such bodies representative of employers as he or she considers appropriate, and
(iii) such bodies representative of employees as he or she considers appropriate.
9.— The following provisions shall, in so far only as they are inconsistent with this Act, not apply to an agency worker to whom this Act applies:
( a) sections 7 and 8 of the Employment Equality Act 1998; and
Access to employment by hirer.
11.— A hirer shall, when informing his or her employees of any vacant position of employment with the hirer, also inform any agency worker for the time being assigned to work for the hirer of that vacant position for the purpose of enabling the agency worker to apply for that position.
Redress procedure provided (1.10.2015) by Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015), s. 41(3)(a), S.I. No. 410 of 2015.
12.— (1) Any provision of an agreement (whether a contract of employment or not, and whether made before, on or after the coming into operation of this Act) that purports to prohibit or restrict the conclusion by a hirer with an agency worker, assigned to work for that hirer, of a contract of employment after the assignment concerned has concluded shall be void.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not operate to prevent an employment agency from obtaining reasonable recompense from a hirer for services rendered by the employment agency to the hirer in respect of the recruitment, training and assignment of an agency worker who is subsequently employed by the hirer under a contract of employment.
Offence to charge fees to certain individuals.
13.— (1) An employment agency shall not charge an individual a fee in respect of the making of any arrangement for the purpose of that individual’s being employed, subsequent to the conclusion of his or her assignment with a hirer, under a contract of employment with that hirer.
(2) A person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a class A fine.
(3) Summary proceedings for an offence under this section may be brought and prosecuted by the Minister.
(4) This section is in addition to, and not in substitution for, subsection (2) of section 7 of the Act of 1971.
Redress and appeal procedures in respect of subs. (1) provided (1.10.2015) by Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015), ss. 41, 44 and sch. 5 part 1 item 25, sch. 6 part 1 item 31, sch. 6 part 2 item 31, S.I. No. 410 of 2015.
Obligations of hirers to agency workers.
14.— (1) A hirer shall, as respects access to collective facilities and amenities at a place of work, treat an agency worker no less favourably than an employee of the hirer unless there exist objective grounds that justify less favourable treatment of the agency worker.
(2) In this section “collective facilities and amenities” includes—
( a) canteen or other similar facilities,
( b) child care facilities, and
( c) transport services.
Compliance notice procedure provided (1.10.2015) by Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015), s. 28(17) and sch. 4, S.I. No. 410 of 2015.
Duty of hirer to provide information to employment agency.
15.— (1) It shall be the duty of the hirer of an agency worker to provide the employment agency that employs that agency worker with all such information in the possession of the hirer as the employment agency reasonably requires to enable the employment agency to comply with its obligations under this Act in relation to the agency worker.
(2) Where proceedings in respect of a contravention of this Act are brought by an agency worker against an employment agency and the contravention is attributable to the failure by the hirer of the agency worker to comply with this section, the hirer shall indemnify the employment agency in respect of any loss incurred by the employment agency that is attributable to such failure.
Amendment of Employment Agency Act 1971.
16.— The Act of 1971 is amended by the insertion of the following definition in subsection (1) of section 1:
“‘employment agency’ includes an employment agency within the meaning of the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012;”.
Amendment of section 10 of Protection of Employment Act 1977.
17.— Section 10 of the Protection of Employment Act 1977 is amended, in subsection (2) (amended by Article 9 of the Protection of Employment Order 1996 ( S.I. No. 370 of 1996)), by the insertion of the following paragraph:
“( cc) (i) the number (if any) of agency workers to which the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 applies engaged to work for the employer,
Amendment of section 3 of Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996.
18.— Section 3 of the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996 (amended by the European Communities ( Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996 (Amendment) Regulations 2011 ( S.I. No. 380 of 2011)) is amended by—
( a) the insertion of the following definitions in subsection (1):
( b) the insertion, in paragraph ( a) of subsection (1A), of “(including relevant information)” after “data”, and
( c) the insertion of the following subsection:
“(1B) For the purposes of this Act, an agency worker to whom the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 applies shall, for the duration of the agency worker’s assignment with a hirer (within the meaning of that Act), be treated as being employed by the employment agency concerned and, accordingly, references in this Act to contract of employment shall, as respects any such agency worker, be construed as including references to contract of employment within the meaning of that Act.”.
Amendment of Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Act 2006.
19.— The Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Act 2006 is amended—
( a) in section 1, by—
(i) the insertion of the following definitions in subsection (1):
“(1A) For the purposes of this Act, an agency worker to whom the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 applies shall, for the duration of the agency worker’s assignment with a hirer (within the meaning of that Act), be treated as being employed by the employment agency concerned, and accordingly references in this Act to contract of employment shall, as respects any such agency worker, be construed as including references to contract of employment within the meaning of that Act.”,
( b) in section 8, by the insertion of “(including relevant information)” after “information” in paragraph ( b) of subsection (5).
Protection for persons who report breaches of Act.
21.— F2 [ (1) ] Where a person communicates his or her opinion, whether in writing or otherwise, to a member of the Garda Síochána or the Minister that—
( a) an offence under this Act has been or is being committed, or
( b) any provision of this Act has been contravened,
F2 [ (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a communication that is a protected disclosure within the meaning of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. ]
22.— (1) A person who states to the Minister or a member of the Garda Síochána that—
( b) any provision of this Act has been or is being contravened,
F3 [ (1A) This section does not apply to the making of a statement that is a protected disclosure within the meaning of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. ]
( b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €100,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or both.
Prohibition on penalisation by hirer.
24.— (1) A hirer shall not penalise or threaten penalisation of an agency worker for—
F5 [ (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to the making of a complaint that is a protected disclosure within the meaning of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. ]
(2) If a penalisation of an agency worker, in contravention of subsection (1), constitutes a dismissal within the meaning of the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2007, relief may not be granted to the agency worker in respect of that penalisation both under Schedule 2 and under those Acts.
(3) In this section “penalisation” means any act or omission by a hirer or a person acting on behalf of a hirer that affects an agency worker to his or her detriment with respect to any term or condition of his or her employment, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, includes—
( a) suspension or dismissal (within the meaning of the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2007), or the threat of suspension or such dismissal,
( b) loss of opportunity to apply for a position of employment with the hirer,
( c) transfer of duties, change of location of place of work or change in working hours,
Complaints in respect of certain contraventions of Act.
25.— Schedule 2 shall have effect for the purposes of this Act.
F6 [ Decision under section 41 of Workplace Relations Act 2015
1. A decision of an adjudication officer under section 41 of the Workplace Relations Act 2015 in relation to a complaint of a contravention of section 6, 11, 13(1), 14, 23 or 24 shall do one or more of the following, namely —
(b) require the employer or hirer, as the case may be, to take a specified course of action (including reinstatement or reengagement of the employee or agency worker in circumstances where the employee or agency worker was dismissed by the employer or hirer), or
(c) require the employer or hirer, as the case may be, to pay to the employee or agency worker compensation of such amount (if any) as the adjudication officer considers just and equitable having regard to all of the circumstances, but not exceeding 2 years ’ remuneration in respect of the employee ’ s or agency worker ’ s employment. ]
F6 [ Decision of Labour Court on appeal from decision referred to in paragraph 1
2. A decision of the Labour Court under section 44 of the Workplace Relations Act 2015, on appeal from a decision of an adjudication officer referred to in paragraph 1, shall affirm, vary or set aside the decision of the adjudication officer. ]
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6. Section 6 of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) Act 1984 is amended, in paragraph ( a) of subsection (2), by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (xxvi):
“(xxvi) any amount that an employer is required to pay by virtue of a decision of a rights commissioner under paragraph 1 (2) of Schedule 2 to the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 or a determination by the Labour Court under paragraph 2(1) of that Schedule.”.
Substituted (1.10.2015) by Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015), s. 52(1) and sch. 7 part 1 item 31, S.I. No. 410 of 2015, subject to transitional provision in subs. (3).
Repealed (1.10.2015) by Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015), s. 8(1) and sch. 2 part 1 item 29, S.I. No. 410 of 2015, subject to transitional provision in subs. (2).
Relevant redress provision for purposes of para. 1 specified (1.10. 2015) by Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015), s. 41(5)(b)(i), (iii) and sch. 6 part 1 item 31, S.I. No. 410 of 2015.
Relevant redress provision for purposes of para. 2 specified (1.10. 2015) by Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015), s. 44(1)(b)(i), (iii) and sch. 6 part 2 item 31, S.I. No. 410 of 2015.