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Many employers hold the mistaken view that they can easily dismiss an employee during their probationary period, as the employee does not have recourse to the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 - 2015.

The Supreme Court recently issued two very important Judgments (Hogan J and Charleton J) in the case of Tibor Baranya v Rosderra Irish Meats Group Limited.

2016 was an interesting year for Irish employment law. We look at the significant efficiencies achieved by the Workplace Relations Commission during its first full year in operation.

Employers should be afforded sufficient notification of an employee's grievance and be given reasonable opportunities to resolve the grievance before it can be considered a constructive dismissal.

In one of the first high-profile cases under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, two employees have successfully secured an injunction in the Circuit Court which prevents their dismissal.

The Workplace Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021 (the Act) has been signed into law by the President and is awaiting commencement.

In both Kaydee Cosmetics Limited v Elizabeth Blake and Cedarglade Limited v Tina Hliban, the Labour Court upheld the decision of an Adjudicator Officer to dismiss complaints of constructive dismissal.

We are pleased to share the third instalment in our 2022 Employment Law Series.

As the new workplace relations system is now in operation for over 30 weeks, we continue to provide you with updates of our experiences of the new system and how it is operating in practice.

The claimant maintained at an investigation meeting, and later at a disciplinary meeting, that he had tried to back away, but that he had to hit CO to defend himself.

In a recent case, the Labour Court found that the dismissal of an employee for deliberate manipulation of company policy and misuse of the company sick pay scheme was fair.

For the purposes of the European Communities Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2003 ("TUPE"), the dismissal of an employee will be automatically unfair

In Dublin Institute of Technology v James Wogan, the Labour Court found that Mr Wogan had been penalised under Section 13(1)(d) of the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003...

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

In A Service Technician v A Ventilation Company, the WRC upheld a claim for unfair dismissal, finding the process through which the complainant had been selected for redundancy to be unfair.

As of midnight on Wednesday 21 October, rigorous restrictions will be implemented, as Ireland is placed on Level 5 of the Plan for Living with COVID-19.

The role of the Labour Court (the Court) can be broadly divided between its industrial relations work (those issues coming to the Court under the provisions of the Industrial Relations Acts), and its employment rights work.