Government awaiting High Court appeal before making new laws on wage agreements

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.  Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

The government will wait for the result of an appeal of a High Court judgment on the laws underpinning wage agreements before it plans new legislation, the Tánaiste says.

The High Court recently ruled that both the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015, and a 2019 Sectoral Employment Order (SEO) for the electrical contracting sector were unconstitutional. The ruling has created uncertainty for thousands of workers whose pay rates were guaranteed by the orders.