Official Report: Minutes of Evidence

Committee for the Economy, meeting on Wednesday, 2 March 2022


Members present for all or part of the proceedings:

Dr Caoimhe Archibald (Chairperson)
Mr Matthew O'Toole (Deputy Chairperson)
Mr Stewart Dickson
Mr Stephen Dunne
Mr Mike Nesbitt
Mr John O'Dowd
Ms Claire Sugden

Employment (Zero Hours Workers and Banded Weekly Working Hours) Bill

The Chairperson (Dr Archibald): We have a number of written submissions on the Employment (Zero Hours Workers and Banded Weekly Working Hours) Bill: from the Equality Commission at page 98; from the National Union of Students - Union of Students in Ireland at page 105; from the Women's Regional Consortium at page 106; from the Labour Relations Agency at page 24 of tabled papers; from the NI Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions at page 27 of tabled papers; and from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development at page 34 of tabled papers.

The Committee has received a week's extension to the Committee Stage of the Bill to allow members to complete a report. Thanks to Stewart Dickson for stepping in yesterday to move that motion to extend. If members are content, we will include those responses as part of our Bill report, which is now being collated.

Members indicated assent.

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