This led to the then-Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton submitting a proposal to the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in July 2012 that a new Workplace Relations Commission be formed.

[5] Two years later in July 2014, the Workplace Relations Act 2015 was presented to the Oireachtas, and was signed into law by the President in May 2015.

In July 2015, in a Statutory Order, the Minister set 1 October 2015 as the date that the Workplace Relations Act would be commenced (i.e. when the new Workplace Relations Commission would form and the preceding agencies would dissolve).

[7] It also provides alternative dispute relation services including conciliation and mediation.

[9] New regulations in 2024 introduced on-the-spot fines for breaches in employment laws, pertaining to redundancies, contracts, and distribution of tips and gratuities.