Number 16 of 2015

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 2015

REVISED

Updated to 24 May 2023

Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

This Act is not collectively cited with any other Act.

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (8/2023)

• Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022 (27/2022)

• Sick Leave Act 2022 (24/2022)

• Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Act 2022  (23/2022)

• Maritime Area Planning Act 2021 (50/2021)

• Workplace Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021 (29/2021)

• Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2021 (4/2021)

• Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (35/2019)

• Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018 (38/2018)

• Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) 2018 (9/2018)

• Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016 (11/2016)

• Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Act 2016 (1/2016)

• Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015 (27/2015)

• National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015 (22/2015)

• Parental Leave Act 1998 (30/1998)

• Employment Equality Act 1998 (21/1998)

• Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Act 1984 (21/1984)

• Redundancy Payments Act 1967 (21/1967)

All Acts up to and including Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Act 2023 (13/2023), enacted 25 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• European Union (Cross-Border Conversions, Mergers and Divisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. No. 233 of 2023)

• European Union (Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 686 of 2022)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (Workplace Relations Commission Code of Practice on the Right to Disconnect) Order 2021 (S.I. No. 159 of 2021)

• Employment Affairs and Employment Law (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 438 of 2020)

• European Union (Reporting, Analysis and Follow-up of Occurrences in Civil Aviation) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 195 of 2020)

• Labour Affairs and Labour Law (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 361 of 2017)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (Fixed Payment Notice) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 32 of 2017)

• Workplace Relations Commission Director General Superannuation Scheme 2016 (S.I. No. 595 of 2016)

• European Union (Posting of Workers) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 412 of 2016)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (Section 37) (Commencement) Order 2016 (S.I. No. 206 of 2016)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (Fees) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 536 of 2015)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (Fixed Payment Notice) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 419 of 2015)

• Labour Relations Commission (Dissolution Day) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 413 of 2015)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (Establishment Day) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 412 of 2015)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 410 of 2015)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (Commencement) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 338 of 2015)

All statutory instruments up to and including European Union (Cross-Border Conversions, Mergers and Divisions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. No. 233 of 2023), made 24 May 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.