Wait for agency worker laws to end ‘in weeks’

THE guessing game on when the Government will publish legislation regulating employment agencies and protecting vulnerable workers took yet another twist yesterday when the Taoiseach said two bills would be in place within weeks.

Addressing a plenary session of the social partners ahead of discussions on a successor to Towards 2016, Mr Ahern said the Employment Law Compliance Bill which will, among other things, place the National Employment Rights

Authority on a statutory footing, would be published later this month.