Employment

Barry Walsh, partner and head of employment at Fieldfisher, considers employees' right to accompaniment or representation in internal company processes. A recent piece in the Law Society Gazette reported on how an employee involved a redundancy consultation process in New Zealand brought a clown (th

A community-based law centre has said increasing demand for its free legal services in the area of employment law has highlighted the limitations of the civil legal aid scheme. Community Law & Mediation (CLM) assisted more than 3,000 people through its free community-based legal, mediation and e

A former mushroom farm worker who worked more than 80 hours per week has been awarded €21,400 by the Labour Court. Ana Lacramoiara Manciu, 30, brought the case with support from the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and A&L Goodbody.

A law lecturer has launched a survey seeking the views of legal practitioners and user representatives in employment law and industrial relations on workplace dispute resolution services in Ireland. Dr Brian Barry, lecturer at TU Dublin, previously conducted surveys on the subject in 2011 and 2016.

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Paul Rochford as a partner in the firm's employment law and benefits team. Mr Rochford, previously a senior associate with the firm, practises in the area of employment and education law in the private and public sectors.

A line manager at a bank has been awarded €7,500 in compensation for the organisation’s failure to properly address a formal grievance she raised about being undermined in her ability to manage a new employee. Stating that the 15-month delay in dealing with the formal grievance had exacer

A consultant psychiatrist has been awarded €4,000 after it was found that he was penalised for making a protected disclosure about the clinical performance of a colleague. Ordering the employer to pay compensation for penalising the complainant, Adjudication Officer Kevin Baneham found tha

A man who brought a case to the Workplace Relations Commission seeking redress for discrimination on the grounds of gender has had his complaint dismissed. The man complained that he was not allowed to use a room designated for use by females only and that he was being discriminated against since th

Draft legislation providing for two weeks' paid parent's leave for each working parent of a child has been published. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said up to 60,000 people could benefit within a year from the scheme, which he hopes to roll out by the start of November.

A new legal code of practice will be brought forward by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to promote greater employment of disabled people, the body has said. Once completed, the code, prepared under the Commission's statutory powers, will be legally admissible in evidence in court, Wor

A man who was terminated without notice after working with a machinery manufacturing company for nearly a year has been awarded €15,000 in the Workplace Relations Commission. Finding that the company was in breach of the Employment Equality Acts, Adjudication Officer Ray Flaherty

A farm manager who was employed by a food company for over ten years before he was summarily dismissed has had his complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 dismissed. The complainant alleged that his dismissal was based on his refusal to sign fraudulent claim forms for EU payments, and that th

A university lecturer has had her request for the re-run of an allegedly unfair and biased promotions scheme refused by the Workplace Relations Commission. However, stating that she was “struck by the lack of a formalised detailed processes that would be expected around a promotions scheme suc

Irish employers face legal, business and reputational risk if they are not in compliance with recently introduced and upcoming protective leave legislation, William Fry has warned. The firm recently hosted a roundtable discussion on the topic of work-life integration, addressing protective leave and

A lecturer who was subject to sexual harassment by students in her class has been awarded €10,000 in the Labour Court. Finding that Waterford Institute of Technology “did not take such steps as were reasonably practicable to prevent sexual harassment and harassment based on gender”