In cases where the employer is required to provide training to their employees by national law, EU law or as stipulated in the collective agreement for such employees to perform their work, the responsibility for the provision of the training and the costs of such training shall be borne by the employer.

Any worker, including those workers whose employment relations has ended have the right to dispute resolution and a right to redress in the case of infringements of their rights arising from these regulations. In such cases the DIER which is the national competent authority, would launch an investigation based on the complaint provided by the said worker.

Any action by the employer which aims to victimise or subject any worker or any workers’ representative to adverse treatment shall be deemed to be unlawful.

In cases where the reason of dismissal of a worker is that the worker refused or proposed to refuse to comply with a requirement which the employer imposed or posed to impose which go against these regulations.

The workers have also the right to request the reason of dismissal, in cases where they consider that such dismissal has been affected on the basis of their rightful exercise of these regulations, and in instances where the worker establishes the facts before the Tribunal that such dismal has been affected on such grounds, the burden of proof will rest on the employer.

If a person is convicted of such infringement such person will be liable of a fine of not less than €450.00