AI Summary of 2. Interpretation
This document contains definitions pertinent to the Workplace Relations Act 2015. Key definitions include "Act of 2015," denoting the Workplace Relations Act 2015; "Commission," referring to the Workplace Relations Commission; and "contract of employment," which encompasses contracts of service or apprenticeship and agreements involving employment agency representatives performing work for third parties. Additionally, it defines "employee" and "employer" in relation to contracts of employment, clarifying the obligations and contexts that establish these relationships.
The document further elaborates on terms such as "contractual retirement age," defining it as the age specified in an employment contract for mandatory retirement. It also mentions "pensionable age," aligning it with the definition in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005. Furthermore, it specifies conditions under which one employer is deemed associated with another, based on control relationships between corporate entities.
2. Interpretation
(1) In this Act -
“Act of 2015” means the Workplace Relations Act 2015;
“Commission” means the Workplace Relations Commission;
“contract of employment” means -
(a) a contract of service or apprenticeship, or
(b) any other contract whereby an individual agrees with another person, who is carrying on the business of an employment agency within the meaning of the Employment Agency Act 1971 and is acting in the course of that business, to do or perform personally any work or service for a third person (whether or not the third person is a party to the contract),
whether the contract is express or implied and, if express, whether it is oral or in writing;
“contractual retirement age” means, in relation to a contract of employment, the age specified in the contract as the age at which an employee is obliged to retire from employment with an employer;
“employee” means a person who has entered into or works under (or, where the employment has ceased, entered into or worked under) a contract of employment and references, in relation to an employer, to an employee, shall be construed as references to an employee employed by that employer;