Bogus self-employment fines binned by Fianna Fáil ‘under protest’
Unions have been lobbying for the bill to pass as soon as possible because it will ban zero-hours contracts and provide more protection for workers on low-hour contracts
Fianna Fáil has scrapped a plan to issue €5,000 fines to employers involved in bogus self-employment due to pressure from unions.
The party’s social protection spokesman Willie O’Dea managed to get the fines into a new bill in the Dáil last summer. But Fine Gael had warned that it would not send the bill to the Seanad until this was removed.
This worried the unions, which have been lobbying for the bill to ...
