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IRL-2007-L-76696
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Title_of_text
Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Act 2007 (No. 27 of 2007).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Ireland
Subjects (Classification)
Employment security, termination of employment
Adopted on (Date of text)
2007-05-08
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
An Act to make provision, consequent on the conclusion of the ten-year framework social partnership agreement 2006-2015 known as 'Towards 2016', for the establishment of a Redundancy Panel and the reference to it of certain proposed collective redundancies and for related action by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, including the obtaining from the Labour Court of opinions on the nature of proposed collective redundancies; to remove the upper age limit for entitlement to redundancy payments; to make consequential amendments of the Protection Of Employment Act 1977, the Redundancy Payments Act 1967, the Redundancy Payments Act 1971, the Redundancy Payments Act 1979, the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 and the Employment Equality Act 1998; and to make further amendments of those acts to update penalties and for purposes of statute-law revision.
Amended Text region
Amended text(s)
1971-07-27 (IRL-1971-L-17098)
Redundancy Payments Act 1971 (No. 20 of 1971).
Amended text(s)
1967-12-18 (IRL-1967-L-72416)
Redundancy Payments Act, 1967 (No. 21 of 1967).
Amended text(s)
1977-04-05 (IRL-1977-L-76697)
Protection of Employment Act, 1977 (No. 7 of 1977).
Amended text(s)
1977-04-06 (IRL-1977-L-76698)
Unfair Dismissals Act, 1977 (No. 10 of 1977).
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
2015-05-20 (IRL-2015-L-101382)
Workplace Relations Act 2015 (No. 16 of 2015).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Act on-line
Author
Houses of the Oireachtas
Country
Ireland
URL
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2007/a2707.pdf
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line as Revised
Author
Law Reform Commission, Republic of Ireland
URL
https://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/2007/act/27/front/revised/en/html
File
IRL76696 2017.pdf (PDF of Act as revised to 01/09/2017)