The Financial Services Union has called for radical change to the proposed remote work legislation which is being discussed today at the Dail Comitee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
The union feels that in its current state the proposed legislation is weighted far too heavily in favour of empolyers and makes it easy for any empolyer to decline a request from their staff to work remotely.
The FSU along with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions intend to campaign for changes to this legislation.
The intention is to give an employee the legal right to request remote working and to ensure that an employer gives proper consideration to such a request.
As currently draftd the employer can decline a request without having to provide proper justification and the empolyee has no legal right to appeal the substance of that decision.
The union also want the timelines of the decision-making process to be shortenend and the thirteen reasons for an employer to decline a request to be removed and instead ask that any refusal must be justified on objective grounds that relate to the real needs of the business.
