News - May 6th, 2022
WRC Reiterates the Requirement for…
Facts: The Complainant, Gerard Buston, commenced employment with the Respondent…
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News - May 6th, 2022
Statutory Redundancy Payment No Longer…
In the recent decision of the WRC in the case of Kieran Murray v Sherry Garden Rooms Limited…
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News - May 6th, 2022
WRC Dismisses Payment of Wages…
In Brigid Walsh v PV Generation Limited, the Complainant issued a complaint under…
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News - May 6th, 2022
Labour Court Finds That Providing…
In Sylwester Michalski v Strandvous Limited the Respondent Company did not provide a translator…
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News - April 5th, 2022
Employee’s Claim For Reasonable Accommodation…
The recent decision of the WRC in the case of Victorine Neuray v LIRG5 Ltd, ADJ-00029639 highlights…
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News - April 4th, 2022
Compensation, 3 Year Pay Difference…
Facts: In the case of Paula Reid v Teagasc, Ms Reid (‘the Complainant’) was a Statistician employed…
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News - April 4th, 2022
Wrc Emphasises Procedural Error In…
In the recent case of Paul Dunne v Randox Teoranta, ADJ-00031187, the Complainant…
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News - April 4th, 2022
WRC Finds Purported Redundancy to…
This decision is another recent example of the importance of fair procedures in a…
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News - March 3rd, 2022
Labour Court Finds Redundancy To…
This was an appeal by the Respondent, Cuan Tamhnaigh Teoranta, to the Labour…
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News - March 3rd, 2022
Mandatory Retirement Age Held Discriminatory…
In its recent decision in the case of Doreen Nolan v Alsaa, ADJ-00029859 on the…
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News - March 3rd, 2022
High Court Injunction Seeking to…
In the High Court case of Philomena Hennessy (the “Plaintiff”) v. Ladbrooks Payments…
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News - March 3rd, 2022
WRC Applies High Bar In…
WRC Adjudicator emphasises the high bar that must be met by a Complainant in a…
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News - March 3rd, 2022
Courier Deemed To Be An…
In the case of John Read v. Speedking Couriers Ltd t/a Fastway, the Complainant had…
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News - March 3rd, 2022
WRC Limited Award For Unfair…
In the recent decision of Martin Gillen v. Derek Daly Construction Ltd ADJ-00029984 the Complainant…
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Covid News - February 3rd, 2022
The Transitional Protocol: Good Practice…
On 31 January 2022 the Department for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, published…
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News - February 1st, 2022
WRC Finds Withholding of Ex-Gratia…
The Complainant was appointed as a cargo surveyor with the Respondent on 1st April 2004…
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News - February 1st, 2022
Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022
The Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022 (“the Bill”) was published on the 21st…
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Covid News - February 1st, 2022
Substantial Award by WRC Highlights…
Facts: This was an unfair dismissal case in which the Complainant, Mr Ray Walsh, claimed…
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News - February 1st, 2022
Award of Two Years’ Compensation…
In the recent decision of Robert Libera v Regeneron Ireland DAC, ADJ-0023417…
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News - February 1st, 2022
Dismissal Held To Be Disproportionate…
The Complainant was appointed as a cargo surveyor with the Respondent on 1st April 2004…
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Covid News - February 1st, 2022
Heads of Bill Published for…
The Covid-19 Pandemic has seen remote working become a staple of the Irish workplace…
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News - December 24th, 2021
Reeling In The Year 2021
It is appropriate at this time of the year to look back at some of the developments
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Covid News - December 24th, 2021
Issues And Payments To Be…
On 17th December 2021, the latest restrictions were introduced which will have an adverse
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News - December 24th, 2021
Reminder Re Gender Pay Gap…
As noted in our newsletter earlier this year, the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 (the “Act”)
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News - December 24th, 2021
Employee Re-instated by WRC as…
In the recent WRC decision of Colin Dominic Kearns v Ata Tools, ADJ-00030876
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News - December 24th, 2021
HR’s Control of the Process…
In the recent decision of the Labour Court in the case of Frederick Hobson v Praxis Care
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News - December 9th, 2021
Supreme Court Confirms Broad Scope…
On 1st December 2021, the Supreme Court in Baranya v. Rosderra Meats found in favour of the…
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News - December 8th, 2021
Update: Sick Leave Bill 2021
The details of the highly anticipated Sick Leave Bill (“the Bill”) were recently published by the..
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News - December 8th, 2021
Employee who worked one month…
Facts: The Complainant was employed as a photographer with the Respondent, who operates…
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News - December 8th, 2021
WRC Increases Burden On Employers…
In the recent decision of the Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) of Jennifer Healy v De Paul…
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News - November 8th, 2021
Employee Awarded €25,000 For Employer’s…
Facts: The Complainant, Anthony Kenny commenced employment with the Respondent…
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News - November 8th, 2021
Labour Court Awards €75,000 For…
In the recent decision of the Labour Court in the case of Kevin Roberts v United Parcel Service…
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Covid News - November 8th, 2021
Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment Update
The Covid-19 PUP closed to new applicants from 8th July 2021. There has been gradual reduction…
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Covid News - November 8th, 2021
Updated Work Safely Protocol
On 22 October 2021 the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar..
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News - October 5th, 2021
Labour Court Finds Employee Unfairly…
This was an appeal by the Complainant, Mr Nicholas Folan, of a WRC decision…
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News - October 5th, 2021
WRC Held Wages Are Not…
The Complainant joined the Respondent’s engineering contracting firm…
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News - October 5th, 2021
Labour Court Substantially Increases Award…
Facts: This was an Appeal by the Complainant, a 19 year old female barista, against a…
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News - October 5th, 2021
Bus Driver’s Dismissal For Using…
The WRC Adjudicator, Pat Brady, centred his decision around the Respondent’s use of…
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News - October 5th, 2021
Labour Court Finds “Volunteer” To…
This was an appeal by the Respondent, Camphill Communities of Ireland, against…
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News - October 5th, 2021
Labour Court Increases Complainant’s Award…
Facts: The Complainant’s employment transferred to the Respondent by way…
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News - October 1st, 2021
Employee Held to be Unfairly…
Eduard Markovskij, the Complainant, commenced employment with Suretank Limited, the Respondent…
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News - October 1st, 2021
Maximum Award For Mandatory Retirement…
The Complainant was employed as a senior staff nurse from the 10th May 2014 until the date of…
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News - October 1st, 2021
Labour Court Finds Company’s Mandatory…
Facts: The Complainant commenced employment with the Respondent Company as a Service Engineer on 1st September 1989…
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News - August 30th, 2021
Labour Court Finds ‘Re-Instatement’ Not…
The recent decision of the Labour Court in the case of Kenneth Folman v Bus Eireann…
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News - August 30th, 2021
WRC Awards 6 Months’ for…
Introduction: In the recent decision of the anonymised WRC case ADJ-00024794, Adjudication…
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News - August 30th, 2021
WRC Held Employee Unfairly Dismissed…
Facts: The Complainant began working with the Respondent company in 2015…
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News - August 30th, 2021
WRC Upholds Contractual Discretion to…
Introduction: In the recent case Vithaldas v UCC Academy DAC, ADJ-00032510, WRC Adjudication…
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News - August 30th, 2021
Employer Obliged to Offer All…
Facts: The Complainant was hired by the Respondent Company in June 2014.
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News - July 30th, 2021
WRC Orders Re-Engagement Rather than…
In the recent decision of John Tyrell v Toga Freight Services Ltd, ADJ-00029338, Adjudicator…
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News - July 30th, 2021
High Court Grants Injunction To…
The Plaintiff, Mr Rory Mason, made an application for an interlocutory injunction to restrain his employer…
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