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New workers’ rights introduced in Work Life Balance Bill
New workers’ rights, including domestic violence leave, have been introduced under the Work Life Balance Bill passed by the Oireachtas. Children, equality, disability, integration and youth minister Roderic O’Gorman has today welcomed the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 passing all stages in the Oireachtas. The bill provides for the introduction of new […]
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Prison service to pay €55k to official not allowed to work from home during pandemic
Prison service to pay €55k to official not allowed to work from home during pandemic The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has been ordered to pay €55,000 to a senior official with a heart condition who was denied the right to work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Employer Successfully Defends Mandatory Retirement Age Policy
A mandatory retirement age (MRA) obliges an employee to retire at a particular age. An employer may provide for an MRA explicitly in the employee’s employment contract, or it may be implied into the employment relationship by policy or by custom and practice.
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Employee Awarded €25,000 For Employer’s Failure To Objectively Justify Retirement Age
The Complainant, Anthony Kenny commenced employment with the Respondent, Bord Na Mona Plc, on 15th May 1975, as a General Operative until he retired in April 2020. He thereafter requested to work beyond his retirement age. A meeting was convened in December 2019 and a correspondence declining his application was issued to him. The application was declined on the basis […]
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Design engineer fired over stammer awarded €15,000 in compensation
A Design Engineer for an agricultural machinery manufacturer who was dismissed over his stammer has been awarded €15,000 in compensation.
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€10,000 compensation recommended for woman dismissed for not returning to office due to effects of Covid enforced creche closure
A sports firm here dismissed a credit controller after she could not return to the workplace following a Covid-19 enforced closure of the creche that cared for her two children.
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Winds of Change are Blowing – Significant Extension to Protections for Whistle-blowers in Ireland
On 12 May 2021, the General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill (GS) was published by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The purpose of this amending legislation is to transpose Directive (EU) 2019/1937 (Whistleblowing Directive) into Irish law. Ireland is one of
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Trainee solicitor ‘paid €5 per hour’ is awarded €22,000
A trainee solicitor who claimed he was paid the equivalent of €5 an hour at times has been awarded €22,439 against his former employer.
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Sixteen Golden Rules/Hatton Principles
Four Separate Appeals were heard together and reported on under Sutherland v Hatton [2002] EWCA Civ 76 (05 February 2002). The appeals were linked only by subject matter. Employees had been successful in alleging stress against their employers in four separate actions. Three of the appeals were upheld and one was dismissed “not without some hesitation”. […]
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