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Version status: Inserted
Version date: 7 December 2022 - onwards

25. Abuse of remote working arrangement

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 5 October 2022 by Dáil Éireann

(1) An approved remote working arrangement is subject to the condition that the employee continues to discharge all of their duties of employment in accordance with the agreement referred to in section 21(1)(b)(i).

(2) Where an employer has reasonable grounds for believing that an employee who is on an approved remote working arrangement is not discharging all of their duties of employment in accordance with the agreement referred to in section 21(1)(b)(i), the employer may, by notice in writing given to the employee, terminate the approved remote working arrangement and the notice shall contain a statement in summary form of the grounds for terminating the arrangement and shall specify the day (being a day not later than the date of the end of the period of the arrangement, if any, specified in the agreement referred to in section 21(1)(b)(i), nor, subject to the foregoing requirement, earlier than 7 days after the date of the receipt by the employee concerned of the notice) on which the employee must return to work.

(3) Where an approved remote working arrangement is terminated under subsection (2), the employee concerned shall return to the employee's original working arrangement on the day specified in the notice under that subsection.