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This chapter describes the emergence, prevalence and growth of zero hours work in Ireland, providing a profile of workers and sectors most affected by this type of work. We outline gaps in the legislative and regulatory context that have provided for the emergence of a particular form of on-call work in Ireland. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the responses to zero hours type work both at the sectoral and national level.
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The CSO is the agency that is responsible for the collection, compilation, extraction and dissemination for statistical purposes of information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions in Ireland—Statistics Act 1993.
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Murphy, C. et al. (2019). Zero Hours Work in Ireland. In: O’Sullivan, M., et al. Zero Hours and On-call Work in Anglo-Saxon Countries. Work, Organization, and Employment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6613-0_2
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