Carlow County Enterprise Board Owner Manager Network 7th October 2008 Presented By Ger Deering, Director National Employment Rights Authority.

Carlow County Enterprise Board

Owner Manager Network

7th October 2008

Presented By Ger Deering, Director

National Employment Rights Authority

“To achieve a national culture of employment rights compliance”

NERA’s Mission Statement

•Carlow HQ•Dublin•Cork•Sligo•Shannon

NERA’s Locations

Enabling employers & employees to achieve compliance through:- Information and Education- Inspection- Prosecution- Enforcement

NERA Achieving Compliance

NERA’s Information Services

• Approximately 500 calls per day - 80,000 to date his year

• Quarter of a million visitors & 1.5M web page impressions on our website from Jan 14th 2008 to Date

• 7,400 email enquiries to date this year

• Approximately 40% of these are employers

NERA’s Information Services

NERA’s Information CampaignNERA’s Information Services

Sectoral Campaigns • Agriculture/Mushroom• Construction • National Minimum Wage • Protection of Young Persons• Security• Catering• Hotel

NERA’s Inspection Services

• Employer Registration Number

• Name and address and PPS Number of each employee

• Terms of Employment for each employee

• Payroll details

• Copies of pay slips

• Employees job classification

• Dates of commencement and termination

• Hours of work (rosters)

•Register of employees under 18 years of age

•Holidays & public holidays

What Will An Inspector Look For?

• Start and finish times not recorded

• No statement of terms and conditions

• Statutory Minimum Rate not paid

• National Minimum Wage Act

• Payment of Wages Act - pay slips

• Organisation of Working Time Act

• Non payment of overtime

• Holidays

• Incomplete records

Types of Breaches Detected

NERA QUARTERLY

NERA’s Future

• Employment Law Compliance Bill makes provision for: – establishment of NERA on statutory footing– standardisation of powers of NERA Inspectors across the range of

‘employment legislation’– maintenance of statutory employment records (payroll; time records)– increased/standardised fines for non-compliance with statutory

employment rights, typically:• €5000/12 months’ imprisonment on summary conviction• €250,000/three years’ imprisonment following conviction on indictment

– statutory Protection for complainants & whistleblowers– an enforcement role for NERA under Employment Permits Acts 2003 &

2006

Achieving a national culture of employment rights compliance