News 30th July 2024

Employer Deemed Unreasonable Not Allowing Employee Withdraw Her Resignation

Patricia Groarke v Pat The Baker (ADJ-00048826) is a decision of the Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) in a case under the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977-2015 (the “Acts”) which concerned the Complainant’s resignation and the employer’s refusal to permit her to...

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News 8th July 2024

WRC Considers Suitability of Alternative Employment Offered and Reasonableness of Employees’ Refusal in Two Decisions Issued on the Same Day

In the cases of Giancarlo Riozzi v Northway Personnel (ADJ-00047292) (the “First Case”) and Krzysztof Wisiniewski v Fohntechgroup (ADJ-00049834) (the “Second Case”) both Complainants lodged complaints with the Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) under Section 39 of the Redundancy Payments Act...

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News 8th July 2024

WRC Finds Mandatory Retirement Age Was Justified

Liam Murphy v Deepak Fasteners (Shannon) Ltd (ADJ-00040284) concerned a Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) case under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015 (“the Acts”). This case alleged age discrimination in circumstances where the Complainant wished to continue working beyond the age...

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News 8th July 2024

Employer’s Failure to Challenge Third Party Company’s Discontinued Need for its Employee Resulted in an Unfair Dismissal Finding

In Paul Atkinson v PFH Technology Group (ADJ-00047335), the Complainant brought a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission (the “WRC”) under the Unfair Dismissals Act claiming that his redundancy was an unfair dismissal. The Adjudicator, Patsy Doyle, found that the...

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News 8th July 2024

WRC Publishes Annual Report for 2023

The Workplace Relations Commission (the “WRC”) has recently issued its Annual Report for 2023. The Report is 100 pages long and contains a significant level of detail on the work of the WRC. Set out below is a high level...

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News 8th July 2024

WRC Awards €10,000 for Disability Discrimination

The Complainant in Aoife McGarry v. Temperature Ltd (ADJ-00045072) brought a claim against the Respondent under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015 (“the Acts”), claiming she had been discriminated against on the grounds of disability. Ms McGarry was dismissed by the...

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News 8th July 2024

WRC Finds Former Employee was Sexually Harassed, but Caps Award at €13,000

The Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) in Jasmine Olaru v Remo Foods Limited t/a Domino’s Pizza (ADJ-00044923) found that the Complainant was sexually harassed and discriminated against on the basis of her gender during her employment with the Respondent. Her victimisation...

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News 8th July 2024

WRC Awards Three Weeks’ Pay to Complainant who was Disciplined in respect of Statutory Sick Leave Absence

The recent decision of the Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) in A Worker v Service Provider to Financial Services (ADJ-00048825) is one of only a few decisions issued to date under the relatively new Sick Leave Act, 2022. Facts: The Complainant...

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News 8th July 2024

New Revenue Guidelines for Determining Employment Status

Revenue have recently published its “Guidelines for Determining Employment Status for Taxation Purposes” (the “Guidelines”), to reflect the Supreme Court decision in The Revenue Commissioners v. Karshan (Midlands) Ltd t/a Dominio’s Pizza (the “Karshan Decision”).   The Guidelines reflects the...

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News 4th June 2024

Probationary Periods must be Proportionate to the Length of a Fixed Term Contract

Probationary Periods must be Proportionate to the Length of a Fixed Term Contract In An Assistant Lecturer v An Institute of Technology (ADJ-00050085) the Workplace Relations Commission (the WRC”) examined the issue of proportionality in probationary periods. The Complainant was...

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