Proposed Bill | Purpose as per Legislative Programme | Expected Publication Date |
Workplace Relations Bill | To provide for reform of statutory Workplace Relations Bodies | In the Spring session |
Protected Disclosure in the Public Interest Bill | To provide protection against reprisals and victimisation and redress for workers who disclose information regarding serious wrongdoing in the workplace | In the Spring session. A General Scheme has been published. |
Employment Permits Bill | To consolidate existing legislation, to take account of evolving jurisprudence and to cater for future accessions to the EU | In the Spring session |
Family Leave Bill | To transpose EU Directive 2010/18/EU on Parental Leave and to consolidate with amendments all family leave legislation | In the Spring session |
Gender Recognition Bill | To provide for legal recognition of the acquired gender of transgender people | 2013 |
Social Welfare and Pensions Bill | To provide for amendments to the Pensions Act 1990 to change the current rules for the distribution of assets in the wind-up of defined benefit pension schemes that are underfunded and to provide for a number of other miscellaneous amendments. It will also provide for amendments to the social welfare code arising from Budget 2013 and from policy, administrative, operational and control matters | 2013 |
Your William Fry contacts:
Boyce Shubotham, Alicia Compton, Maura Roe & Michael Wolfe