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The use of emails by an employer discovered in the course of an employee disciplinary investigation does not amount to an unjustified interference with that employee’s private life.

Earlier this year, following clusters of outbreaks of COVID-19 in meat plants and nursing homes

The Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023 has passed all stages in the Seanad and will now go to the President to be signed into law...

Lyons v Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board - Are Employees Now Entitled to Full Fair Procedures at the Preliminary Investigation Stage? Part - 1

Employers can establish a mandatory retirement age for employees but such ages must be capable of being reasonably and objectively justified if they are challenged by employees as being discriminatory on grounds of age.

Technology has changed the way we communicate, the way we inform ourselves and the way we do business.

It has come into consideration whether an employee's constitutionally protected ‘right to silence' can be implemented within the workplace.

The Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019 (the "Bill") has now completed Dáil Éireann, First Stage and was published online in March 2019.

In addition to the duties owed to employees, employers have legal obligations to safeguard the health and safety of others, including visitors and trespassers, at their workplaces.

The EU Platform Work Directive (EU) 2024/2831 must be implemented by December 2026 and introduces a presumption that platform workers are employees...

The success of a company is often connected to the specific knowledge, skill and connections of its key employees.

On Monday 24th June, 2019, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission ("the Commission") which is now in its fourth year of work, launched its Annual Report to the Houses of the Oireachtas.

A recent decision of a WRC Adjudication Officer found an employer had failed in its obligation to provide reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability.

In last week's client briefing (available here), we considered the exceptional nature of the right to legal representation in disciplinary proceedings as set down by the Supreme Court in McKelvey

Bring-your-own-device ("BYOD") – where companies allow employees to use their own mobile phones, tablets, and/or laptops for work – is a practice that is quietly growing year-by-year.

Revenue has confirmed that following the Supreme Court decision in the Domino's Pizza case, the Code of Practice on Determining Employment Status is currently being updated by Revenue...

The Government has published updated guidance for employers and workers which sets out best practice for keeping workplaces safe now that a return to workplaces is underway.

In a long awaited landmark judgment, The European Court of Justice has today found in favour of ten former Waterford Crystal workers.