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Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (No. 8)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (s. 1)1. Short title, collective citation and commencementPart 2 Amendment of Parental Leave Act 1998 (ss. 2-15)2. Definition - Part 23. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act4. Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act5. Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act6. Leave for medical care purposes7. Domestic violence leave8. Insertion of new Part IIA in Principal Act9. Amendment of section 14 of Principal Act10. Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act11. Amendment of section 16A of Principal Act12. Amendment of section 21 of Principal Act13. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 2015 in relation to dispute under Part IIA14. Amendment of section 22A of Principal Act15. Amendment of section 27 of Principal ActPart 3 Requests for remote working arrangements (ss. 16-29)16. Interpretation (Part 3)17. Voidance or modification of certain provisions in agreements18. Regulations19. Expenses20. Right to request a remote working arrangement21. Obligation on employer to consider request under section 2022. Termination in certain circumstances of remote working arrangement23. Changes to remote working arrangements24. Return to previous working arrangement25. Abuse of remote working arrangement26. Protection of employees from penalisation27. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 201528. Records29. Review of PartPart 4 Code of practice (ss. 30-31)30. Definitions - Part 431. Code of practicePart 5 Amendment of other Acts (ss. 32-41)32. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Redundancy Payments Act 196733. Amendment of section 6 of Unfair Dismissals Act 197734. Amendment of Maternity Protection Act 199435. Amendment of Adoptive Leave Act 199536. Amendment of Organisation of Working Time Act 199737. Amendment of National Minimum Wage Act 200038. Amendment of Adoption Act 201039. Amendment of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 201440. Amendment of Workplace Relations Act 201541. Amendment of Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022
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Version date: 4 April 2023 - onwards

Introductory Text

Number 8 of 2023

An Act to give further effect to Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 [OJ No. L 188, 12.7.2019, p.79] on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU and, for that purpose and other purposes, to amend the Parental Leave Act 1998 to provide for the entitlement of certain employees to leave for medical care purposes and domestic violence leave and to request flexible working arrangements for caring purposes; to provide for the entitlement of employees to request remote working arrangements; and for those and other purposes to amend the Redundancy Payments Act 1967, the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977, the Maternity Protection Act 1994, the Adoptive Leave Act 1995, the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997, the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, the Adoption Act 2010, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014, the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022; and to provide for related matters.

[4th April, 2023]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

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