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Ireland: Employment Permits Act 2024: key reforms to labour market test, 50:50 rule, permit changes and mobility, wage thresholds, agency staffing, and new seasonal and multi-site healthcare permits

Published on: 31 October 2024

Published by a LexisNexis Ireland - Employment expert
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The Irish Employment Permits Act 2024 took effect on 2 September 2024, marking the most substantial revamp of permits legislation since 2006. The Employment Permits Act 2024 (the Act) seeks to modernise how non-EEA nationals are employed in Ireland, delivering increased flexibility and safeguards for both workers and employers. By amending the Employment Permits Acts 2003 and 2006, together with the Employment Permit Regulations 2017, the Act ushers in notable reforms to Irish employment permits. In this briefing, our employment specialists set out the headline changes.

Changes made by the 2024 Act

The Labour Market Needs Test (LMNT)

The LMNT regulates how vacancies arising in Ireland are filled. A position must first be offered to an Irish citizen and other EEA nationals, and that offer must be advertised for 28 days before the same post can be proposed to a non-EEA national. The Act also discards the obligation to place job advertisements in newspapers, moving the emphasis to online channels. It allows adverts to be published on two online platforms for 28 days (previously, advertising in two national newspapers was required), including EURES (JobsIreland.ie). Forthcoming regulations will set out the required content of those adverts...

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