The European Commission has issued a warning to Ireland, and seven other countries, for failing to fully adopt an EU directive on transparent and predictable working conditions.<\/p>\n
The legislation aims to ensure that workers have clear, upfront information about their employment terms such as working hours, pay and job stability.<\/p>\n
It also strengthens protections against abusive practices, including unpredictable schedules and last-minute assignments, while guaranteeing worker rights like cost-free mandatory training.<\/p>\n
The European Commission said it has decided to open infringement procedures by sending a letter of formal notice to Ireland, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal and Finland.<\/p>\n
The countries have been accused of failing to fully align their national legislation with the directive.<\/p>\n
“The Commission is therefore sending a letter of formal notice to eight Member States, which now have two months to respond and adopt necessary measures,” the Commission said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“In the absence of a satisfactory response, the Commission may decide to issue reasoned opinions,” it added.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Department of Enterprise said the directive was fully implemented in Irish law in December 2022. <\/p>\n
“Ireland remains committed to ensuring that its employment legislation is robust and compliant with EU law,” the Department said. <\/p>\n
“We are engaging constructively with the Commission and will continue to provide clarification in relation to the issues identified,” it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission has issued a warning to Ireland, and seven other countries, for failing to fully adopt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-542025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}