Organisation of Working Time Act 1997

Records.

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25.(1) An employer shall keep, at the premises or place where his or her employee works or, if the employee works at two or more premises or places, the premises or place from which the activities that the employee is employed to carry on are principally directed or controlled, such records, in such form, if any, as may be prescribed, as will show whether the provisions of this F22[Act and, where applicable, the Activities of Doctors in Training Regulations] are being complied with in relation to the employee and those records shall be retained by the employer for at least 3 years from the date of their making.

(2) The Minister may by regulations exempt from the application of subsection (1) any specified class or classes of employer and regulations under this subsection may provide that any such exemption shall not have effect save to the extent that specified conditions are complied with.

(3) An employer who, without reasonable cause, fails to comply with subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) Without prejudice to subsection (3), where an employer fails to keep records under subsection (1) in respect of his or her compliance with a particular provision of this F22[Act or the Activities of Doctors in Training Regulations] in relation to an employee, the onus of proving, in proceedings before a rights commissioner or the Labour Court, that the said provision was complied with in relation to the employee shall lie on the employer.

Annotations

Amendments:

F22

Substituted (1.08.2004) by European Communities (Organisation of Working Time) (Activities of Doctors in Training) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 494 of 2004), reg. 11(1).

Modifications (not altering text):

C24

Application of section restricted (27.07.2022) by European Union (Organisation of Working Time in Inland Waterway Transport) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 392 of 2022), reg. 3(3).

Scope

3. (1) These Regulations shall apply to workers employed on board a craft operated within the State in the commercial inland waterway transport sector.

(2) Inland waterway transport operators shall not be considered workers within the meaning of these Regulations, even if they have the status of workers in their own undertaking.

(3) Sections 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19 and 25 of the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 (No. 20 of 1997) do not apply to workers employed on board a craft operated in the commercial inland waterway transport sector.

Editorial Notes:

E130

Power pursuant to section exercised (31.07.2015) by Organisation of Working Time (Non-Application of Certain Provisions to Persons Performing Mobile Road Transport Activities) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 342 of 2015).

E131

Form of records prescribed (1.08.2004) by European Communities (Organisation of Working Time) (Activities of Doctors in Training) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 494 of 2004), reg. 11(2) and (1.11.2001) by Organisation of Working Time (Records) (Prescribed Form and Exemptions) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 473 of 2001).

E132

Classes of employers exempt under subs. (2) prescribed (1.11.2001) by Organisation of Working Time (Records) (Prescribed Form and Exemptions) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 473 of 2001), reg. 5.

E133

Power pursuant to section exercised (1.11.2001) by Organisation of Working Time (Records) (Prescribed Form and Exemptions) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 473 of 2001), subject to restriction of application (1.08.2004) by European Communities (Organisation of Working Time) (Activities of Doctors in Training) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 494 of 2004), reg. 11(5).