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Version status: Amended
Published date: 29 March 2023

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 (enacted 4 April 2023)

Enacted Bill, signed into law by the President on the 4th April 2023.
This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 5 published on 29 March 2023 by Dáil Éireann

Introduction of this Bill

Bill entitled an Act to give further effect to Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU and, for that purpose, to amend the Parental Leave Act 1998 to entitle certain employees to leave for medical care purposes and to request flexible working arrangements for caring purposes; and for those and other purposes to amend the Redundancy Payments Act 1967, the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977, the Maternity Protection Act 1994, the Adoptive Leave Act 1995, the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 and the Workplace Relations Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.

Sponsor
Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Source
Government
Originating House
Dáil Éireann

History of this Bill

Date Stage House Document Link
29 March 2023
5
Dáil Éireann
Bills
As Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas
29 March 2023
5
Dáil Éireann
Debates
From the Seanad
1 March 2023
4
Seanad Éireann
Bill amendments
Cream List [Seanad amendments to Dáil Bill]
1 March 2023
4
Seanad Éireann
Debates
Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
1 March 2023
4
Seanad Éireann
Debates
Report Stage
1 March 2023
4
Seanad Éireann
Bill amendments
Numbered List [Seanad]
15 February 2023
3
Seanad Éireann
Debates
Committee Stage (Resumed)
31 January 2023
3
Seanad Éireann
Debates
Committee Stage
31 January 2023
3
Seanad Éireann
Bill amendments
Numbered List [Seanad]
30 January 2023
5
Dáil Éireann
Bills
As passed by Dáil Éireann - corrections
28 December 2022
3
Seanad Éireann
Other Documents
Bill Digest
14 December 2022
2
Seanad Éireann
Debates
Second Stage
7 December 2022
5
Dáil Éireann
Bills
As passed by Dáil Éireann
7 December 2022
4
Dáil Éireann
Debates
Report and Final Stages
6 December 2022
4
Dáil Éireann
Bill amendments
Numbered List [Dáil]
8 November 2022
3
Dáil Éireann
Debates
Committee Stage
8 November 2022
3
Dáil Éireann
Bills
As amended in Committee/Select Committee (Dáil Eireann)
7 November 2022
3
Dáil Éireann
Bill amendments
Numbered List [Dáil]
13 October 2022
2
Dáil Éireann
Debates
Second Stage (Resumed)
13 October 2022
2
Dáil Éireann
Debates
Referral to Select Committee
12 October 2022
2
Dáil Éireann
Debates
Second Stage
5 October 2022
1
Dáil Éireann
Explanatory memoranda
Explanatory Memorandum
5 October 2022
1
Dáil Éireann
Bills
As initiated
Comparing proposed amendment...
This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 5 published on 29 March 2023 by Dáil Éireann
Introductory Text
Acts Referred to
Part 1 Preliminary and General (s. 1)
Amended
 1. Short title, collective citation and commencement
Part 2 Amendment of Parental Leave Act 1998 (ss. 2-15)
Amended
 2. Definition - Part 2
Amended
 3. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act
Amended
 4. Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act
Amended
 5. Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act
Amended
 6. Leave for medical care purposes
Amended
 7. Domestic violence leave
Amended
 8. Insertion of new Part IIA in Principal Act
Amended
 9. Amendment of section 14 of Principal Act
Amended
 10. Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act
Amended
 11. Amendment of section 16A of Principal Act
Amended
 12. Amendment of section 21 of Principal Act
Amended
 13. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 2015 in relation to dispute under Part IIA
Inserted
 14. Amendment of section 22A of Principal Act
Amended
 15. Amendment of section 27 of Principal Act
Part 3 Requests for remote working arrangements (ss. 16-29)
Amended
 16. Interpretation (Part 3)
Inserted
 17. Voidance or modification of certain provisions in agreements
Inserted
 18. Regulations
Amended
 19. Expenses
Inserted
 20. Right to request a remote working arrangement
Amended
 21. Obligation on employer to consider request under section 20
Amended
 22. Termination in certain circumstances of remote working arrangement
Inserted
 23. Changes to remote working arrangements
Amended
 24. Return to previous working arrangement
Inserted
 25. Abuse of remote working arrangement
Inserted
 26. Protection of employees from penalisation
Amended
 27. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 2015
Inserted
 28. Records
Inserted
 29. Review of Part
Part 4 Code of practice (ss. 30-31)
Inserted
 30. Definitions - Part 4
Amended
 31. Code of practice
Part 5 Amendment of other Acts (ss. 32-41)
Amended
 32. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Redundancy Payments Act 1967
Amended
 33. Amendment of section 6 of Unfair Dismissals Act 1977
Amended
 34. Amendment of Maternity Protection Act 1994
Amended
 35. Amendment of Adoptive Leave Act 1995
Amended
 36. Amendment of Organisation of Working Time Act 1997
Amended
 37. Amendment of National Minimum Wage Act 2000
Inserted
 38. Amendment of Adoption Act 2010
Amended
 39. Amendment of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014
Amended
 40. Amendment of Workplace Relations Act 2015
Inserted
 41. Amendment of Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022
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