Collective Redundancies (Protection of Employment)

L.N. 281 of 2017

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Collective Redundancies (Protection of Employment)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2017

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 37 and 48(2) of

the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister for

European Affairs and Equality, has made the following regulations

(1) The title of these regulations is the Collective Citation and

(Amendment) commencement.

Redundancies

(Protection

of

Employment)

Regulations, 2017 and they shall be read and construed as one with

the Collective Redundancies (Protection of Employment)

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 10 th

October, 2017.

(3) These regulations transpose part of Directive (EU) 2015/

1794 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 October

2015.

Immediately after the definition "contract of service for a Amends

fixed term" in regulation 2 of the principal regulations, there shall be regulation

the principal

added the following new definition

regulations.

" "Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen" shall have

the same meaning as is assigned to it in the Merchant Shipping

Act;".

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 3 of

substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

3. Article 37 of the Act and these regulations

"Exclusion

shall not apply to terminations of employment effected

under contracts of employment concluded for limited

periods of time or for specific tasks, except where such

terminations take place prior to the date of expiry or the

completion of such tasks and the reason for such prior

termination is the redundancy of the employees so

terminated.".

In regulation 8 of the principal regulations the present Amends

provision shall be renumbered as sub-regulation 8(1) and regulation

the principal

immediately thereafter there shall be added the following new sub- regulations.

B

regulation

"(2) Where the projected collective redundancy concerns

members of the crew of a seagoing ship, the employer shall

notify the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.".

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