Gas (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2024
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Transfer of staff | ||
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17. (1) Every person who, immediately before the transfer day, was a member of staff of the dissolved body shall, on the transfer day, cease to be a member of staff of the dissolved body and become and be a member of staff of Gas Networks Ireland. | ||
(2) Save in accordance with a collective agreement negotiated with any recognised trade union or staff association concerned, a relevant employee shall be subject to such terms and conditions of service, including terms and conditions relating to remuneration and superannuation, as are not less favourable than the terms and conditions of service, including terms and conditions relating to remuneration and superannuation, to which such relevant employee was subject immediately before the transfer day. | ||
(3) In relation to a relevant employee, previous service with the dissolved body shall be reckonable for the purposes of, but subject to any exceptions or exclusions in, the following: | ||
(a) the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2022; | ||
(c) the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 ; | ||
(d) the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 ; | ||
(e) the Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 to 2014; | ||
(f) the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts 1973 to 2005; | ||
(g) the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2015; | ||
(h) the Maternity Protection Acts 1994 to 2022; | ||
(i) the Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2023; | ||
(j) the Adoptive Leave Acts 1995 and 2005; | ||
(k) the Carer’s Leave Act 2001 ; | ||
(l) the Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016 ; | ||
(m) the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 . | ||
(4) In this section, “relevant employee” means, as the case may be— | ||
(a) a member of staff referred to in subsection (1), or | ||
(b) a member of staff of Gas Networks Ireland who, before the transfer day, was a member of staff of the dissolved body designated by the chief executive officer of the dissolved body for employment by Gas Networks Ireland. |