S.I. No. 49/1998:

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT (ADDITIONAL INFORMATION) ORDER, 1998.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT (ADDITIONAL INFORMATION) ORDER, 1998.

I, TOM KITT, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in exercise of the power conferred on me by section 3 (6) of the Terms of Employment (Information) Act, 1994 (No. 5 of 1994), as adapted by the Enterprise and Employment (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1997 ( S.I. No. 305 of 1997 ), and the Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order, 1997 ( S.I. No. 330 of 1997 ), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Terms of Employment (Additional Information) Order, 1998, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1998.

2. In this Order "the Act" means the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 (No. 20 of 1997).

3. (1) In relation to an employee who enters into a contract of employment after the commencement of this Order, the employee's employer shall, within two months after the employee's commencement of employment with the employer, give or cause to be given to the employee a statement in writing containing particulars of the times and duration of the rest periods and breaks referred to in sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Act that are being allowed to the employee and of any other terms and conditions relating to those periods and breaks.

(2) In relation to an employee who has entered into a contract of employment before the commencement of this Order, the employee's employer shall, if requested by the employee to do so, give or cause to be given to the employee, within 2 months of the request being made, a statement in writing containing particulars of the times and duration of the rest periods and breaks referred to in sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Act that are being allowed to the employee and of any other terms and conditions relating to those periods and breaks.

GIVEN under my hand, this 25th day of February, 1998.

TOM KITT, T.D.,

Minister for Labour, Trade and Consumer Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order provides that where, under the Terms of Employment (Information) Act, 1994 , an employer is required to provide an employee with a written statement of certain particulars of his or her terms of employment, such statement shall, after 1st March, 1998, include details of the times and duration of (and any other terms and conditions relating to) the rest periods and breaks referred to in sections 11 , 12 and 13 of the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 that are being allowed to the employee.