The role of the Workplace Regulation and Economic Migration Division is to promote quality employment, positive workplace relations, well-functioning dispute resolution mechanisms, a safe working environment and assists Ireland’s enterprise base to access talent from overseas, through responsive and robust economic migration policy.
In particular, the Workplace Regulation and Economic Migration Division works to ensure that:
- employees can rely on a robust suite of employment rights policies, underpinned by statute
- our policy, legislative and institutional framework promotes harmonious industrial and workplace relations
- any disputes or breaches are handled efficiently and effectively
- a skills based economic migration policy is efficiently implemented
- our policy and legislative framework promotes a safe working environment, providing protection for all employees
Assistant Secretary: Yvonne White
Units
- Workplace Relations Liaison
- Employment Permits
- Economic Migration Policy
- Employment Rights Policy
- Redundancy and Insolvency Policy
- Industrial Relations
- Safety, Health and Chemicals Policy
- Construction Contracts Adjudication Service
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