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In December 2020 an Adjudication Officer of the Workplace Relations Commission (AO) issued his decision in the case of Yvonne O'Rourke v Minister for Defence...

2025 is expected to be a busy year for employment law changes in Ireland. The Maternity Protection Act 2024 affords additional protection to employees who become ill while on maternity...

A quiet revolution is about to occur in the UK concerning the manner and ease in which people can gain access to information on their pensions savings.

This month, the Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025 was published. It proposes to impose additional requirements on employers where mandatory retirement below state pension age...

Staff protested at the recent Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") of Independent News & Media ("INM") over controversial proposals to wind-up the company's defined benefit pension schemes...

Judgment was delivered in the case of Holloway & Others v Damianus BV & Others (known as the "Omega Pharma" case) on 25 July 2014

In recent months the Pensions Authority published the second, third and fourth sets of the codes of governance for defined contribution pension schemes.

A recent case in the High Court, Willis & Ors v the Pensions Ombudsman and Emer Lawlor shows the extent of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009.

The SWPA 2018 was signed into law on 24 December 2018.

2024 saw much change in the area of Irish employment law, both in terms of new case law and legislative amendments.

We have previously outlined some pensions implications for employers and trustees as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19 in our briefing available here.

The Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman has released its 2025 Overview revealing significant trends in pension scheme complaints over the past five years.

COVID-19 may have dominated the workplace agenda in recent months – but employers in Ireland can't lose sight of any of the other issues arising in the course of the employer-employee relationship.

Section 80(1) of the Pensions Act provides that where a rule of a scheme does not comply with the principle of equal treatment on the gender ground, it shall, to the extent that it does not so comply...

The High Court recently considered the jurisdiction of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman ("FSPO") as well as the issues the courts will ...

On 25 February 2021, the Central Bank of Ireland ("Central Bank") published a consultation paper and draft cross sectorial guidance on outsourcing ("CP138"). The deadline for responses to CP138...

On 10 May 2017, the Minister for Finance announced the publication of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2017.