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Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 (No. 20)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart I Preliminary and General (ss. 1-10)1. Short title and commencement.2. Interpretation.3. Non-application of Act or provisions thereof.4. Exemptions.5. Employer relieved from complying with certain provisions in certain circumstances.6. Compensatory rest periods.7. Regulations and orders.8. Inspectors.9. Repeals.10. Expenses.Part II Minimum Rest Periods and other matters relating to Working Time (ss. 11-18)11. Daily rest period.12. Rests and intervals at work.13. Weekly rest periods.14. Sunday work: supplemental provisions.15. Weekly working hours.16. Nightly working hours.17. Provision of information in relation to working time.18. Prohibition of zero hours working practices in certain circumstances and minimum payment in certain circumstances.18A. Banded hours.Part III Holidays (ss. 19-23)19. Entitlement to annual leave.20. Times and pay for annual leave.21. Entitlement in respect of public holidays.22. Public holidays: supplemental provisions.23. Compensation on cesser of employment.Part IV Miscellaneous (ss. 24-41)24. Approval of collective agreements by Labour Court.25. Records.26. Refusal by an employee to cooperate with employer in breaching Act.27. Complaints to rights commissioner.28. Decision of Labour Court on appeal from decision referred to in section 27(3).29. Enforcement of determinations of Labour Court.30. Evidence of failure to attend before or give evidence or produce documents to Labour Court.31. References to rights commissioner by Minister.32. Provisions in relation to outworkers who are employees.33. Prohibition on double employment.34. Penalties, proceedings, etc.35. Codes of practice.36. Provisions in relation to Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1996.37. Voidance of certain provisions.38. Amendment of section 51 of Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 1989.39. Powers of rights commissioner, Employment Appeals Tribunal or Labour Court in certain cases.40. Alternative means of claiming relief in cases of non-compliance with Part III.41. Increase of penalties under certain enactments.First Schedule Transitional Provisions in relation to Annual Leave EntitlementsSecond Schedule Public HolidaysThird Schedule Entitlement under section 21 in respect of Public Holidays: ExceptionsFourth Schedule Enactments RepealedFifth Schedule Transitional Provisions in relation to section 15(1)Sixth Schedule Text of Council Directive
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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 14 July 2003 - onwards
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39. Powers of rights commissioner, Employment Appeals Tribunal or Labour Court in certain cases.

Amendments (requiring commencement) by s. 66 of the Workplace Relations Act 2015 (No. 16), published 20 May 2015.

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(1) In this section ''relevant authority'' means a rights commissioner, the Employment Appeals Tribunal or the Labour Court.

(2) A decision (by whatever name called) of a relevant authority under this Act or an enactment or statutory instrument referred to in the Table to this subsection that does not state correctly the name of the employer concerned or any other material particular may, on application being made in that behalf to the authority by any party concerned, be amended by the authority so as to state correctly the name of the employer concerned or the other material particular.

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Adoptive Leave Act, 1995

Maternity Protection Act, 1994

Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts, 1973 to 1991

National Minimum Wage Act, 2000

Parental Leave Act, 1998

Payment of Wages Act, 1991

Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Acts, 1984 to 1991

Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1996

Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 1991

Terms of Employment (Information) Act, 1994

Unfair Dismissals Acts, 1977 to 1993

Parental Leave Act 1998

Protection of Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998

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