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Ireland's Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025 will commence on 29 June 2026, introducing a consent-based framework that requires employees to notify employers in writing if they wish to work beyond their contractual retirement age.

The Government has today announced that all eligible spouses and partners of employment permit holders will be allowed to work if they are already in the State and are granted permission...

ByrneWallace LLP Employment Partner Emmet Whelan joins CIPD Ireland as part of their recent podcast episode where they discuss Protected Disclosures legislation in Ireland...

The United Kingdom European Union membership referendum is scheduled to take place on 23 June 2016.

Expenditure on sickness benefit is reported to have risen from €330 million in 2001 to €876 million last year.

The move is necessary to update the current EPOS system, which uses older technologies. The new cloud-based system will improve the customer experience, increase efficiency, and provide more streamlined processing.

The Tax Appeals Commission examined whether an employee working in Ireland under an A1 certificate, who paid social security contributions in another EU jurisdiction rather than Irish PRSI, could claim tax exemption on a redundancy payment. The case centered on the interpretation of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 requirements and whether EU Regulation 883/2004 on social security coordination could override Irish tax law provisions for statutory redundancy payments.

Domestic violence leave is a new type of leave providing for five days paid leave per year for an employee who is suffering, or has suffered, domestic violence.

Artificial Intelligence ("AI") is transforming the world of work and is being used to help improve efficiencies across all stages of the employment lifecycle including during recruitment...

The Trusted Partner Initiative was launched by the Employment Permits Section of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on 12 May 2015.

Comments are open for the Critical Skills Occupations List and Ineligible List of Occupations for Employment Permits until December 11, 2020.

In the latest episode of Matheson's Employment Law Podcast series, Bryan Dunne discusses a recent decision of the Irish Court of Appeal that overturned an earlier 2014 High Court decision...

The employer was notified by a member of the public that the employee was posting extreme views regarding refugees in Ireland on Facebook.

What follows is an overview of certain considerations which clients may want to bear in mind in the current environment as they steer their businesses through these unchartered waters.

In overturning a 2016 judgment, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled that a Romanian company violated an individual's right to privacy when it monitored his computer activity.

The Labour Court public consultation process on the variation of the Sectoral Employment Order ("SEO") for Mechanical Engineering and Building Services Contractors is closing soon.

The vast majority of employment-related claims are adjudicated upon by the Workplace Relations Commission.

In the latest episode of Matheson's Employment Law Podcast series, Bryan Dunne discusses a recent decision of the Irish High Court which illustrates the risks to an employer...