Pledge to reform law after strike at Dunnes
Minister of State at the Department of Jobs and Enterprise, Ged Nash, told Mandate yesterday that the Office of the Attorney General is drafting the bill, which would “provide a strong and effective remedy where employers refuse to negotiate by way of collective bargaining”. He said he hopes to see it enacted by the middle of the year.
Mandate welcomed the news in the wake of Thursday’s industrial action by 6,000 Dunnes Stores workers at some 100 stores. It will give hope to those workers and the hundreds of thousands of others in similar circumstances across the country, the union said.
