Regulations, 2017

L.N. 282 of 2017

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

European Works Council (Further Provisions) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2017

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 48 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 European Works Citation and

Council (Further Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017 and commencement.

they shall be read and construed as one with the European Works S.L. 452.107.

Council (Further Provisions) 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.

Regulation 1 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 1 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

in paragraph (b) sub-regulation (4) thereof, the

words "June 2011; and" at the end, shall be substituted by "June

2011.";

(b)

paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (4) thereof shall be

deleted.

Immediately after sub-regulation (4) of regulation 11 of the Amends

principal regulations there shall be added the following paragraphs: regulation

the principal

regulations.

"A member of a special negotiating body or of a European

Works Council, or such a member's alternate, who is a member

of the crew of a seagoing ship, shall be entitled to participate in

a meeting of the special negotiating body or of the European

Works Council, or in any other meeting under any procedures

established pursuant to regulation 7(3), where that member or

alternate is not at sea or in a port in a country other than that in

which the shipping company is domiciled, when the meeting

takes place.

Meetings shall, where practicable, be scheduled to

facilitate the participation of members or alternates, who are

members of the crews of seagoing ships. In cases where a

member of a special negotiating body or of a European Works

Council, or such a member's alternate, who is a member of the

crew of a seagoing ship, is unable to attend a meeting, the

possibility of using, where possible, new information and

communication technologies shall be considered.".

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