Private Rules for the Public Service
Four legal notices were also issued this year with the aim of extending some of the regulations that were only applicable to the private sector until some time ago, to the public sector.
The 2007 Part Timers Regulations, the 2007 Fixed Term Worker Regulations and the Equal Treatment Regulations of 2004 were in fact made applicable to the Government and Public Service employees as from March 2007, together with the respective sections on these subjects in EIRA 2002.
These short but effective regulations are therefore now to be read together with the Management Code and the Collective Agreements applicable to the Public Service.
The regulations applying the 2007 Fixed Term Worker Regulations to Public Service employees were in fact issued twice as LN 52 was replaced by another one with the same name published on the 12th of June. In this ‘new’ version of the regulation, Government excluded the provisions of the 2007 Fixed Term Worker Regulations and of EIRA relating to the 12 working day rule. This means that the rule that a contract of employment of fixed term is automatically converted into one of indefinite term, if the employee remains in employment following the expiry of the fixed term contract without a new contract being presented to him, does NOT apply to the Public Service employees.
